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A Look Back At The Old Search Engines

The Six Revisions blog complied an excellent list of the classic search engines, some dating back to the 1990s. His list includes screen shots...

Barry Schwartz | Sep 14, 2009 at 9:31 am ET

Ask.com Expands AnswerFarm Q&A Database

Continuing its move from being a traditional search engine to an “answer engine,” Ask today has announced that its...

Matt McGee | Jun 17, 2009 at 1:48 pm ET

Russian Roulette: McAfee Details Web’s Riskiest Search Terms

Somewhere online right now there’s a music fan who’s big on free downloads, likes Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida” but...

Matt McGee | Jun 9, 2009 at 3:05 pm ET

 

Ask.com & Symantec Partner To Detect Malicious Sites

Ask.com has partnered with Symantec to include a new “Safe Search” feature into the Norton 360 security suite, integrated into the...

Chris Sherman | Feb 3, 2009 at 12:01 am ET

Ask.com Goes Back To 1996 With New Release

Ask.com has released version 11 of their new search engine today. The new version somewhat goes back to the Ask Jeeves approach, focusing on...

Barry Schwartz | Oct 6, 2008 at 6:35 am ET

Ask Kids Relaunches With Cute Kids Features

A few days ago, Ask.com relaunched Ask Kids, their search flavored for children. The Ask.com blog just wrote about the launch last night....

Barry Schwartz | Aug 29, 2008 at 8:27 am ET

Searching For Olympics News And Video

The Olympics are now officially under way. One of the unofficial competitions is among the search engines and companion sites to offer scores,...

Greg Sterling | Aug 8, 2008 at 5:27 pm ET

Ask.com Adds Privacy Link To Home Page, Hopes People Care

Google recently came under fire for not providing a link to its privacy policy right from its home page, as Yahoo and Microsoft do. Ask.com,...

Danny Sullivan | Jun 18, 2008 at 3:58 pm ET

How Search Engines Redirect Users To Country-Specific Sites

Yahoo just started redirecting people in the UK who are trying to reach Yahoo.com instead to its Yahoo UK web site, something that Google has...

Barry Schwartz | May 15, 2008 at 10:09 am ET

IAC Cuts 8% Of Ask.com & Kills Search Engine

IAC’s Ask.com to Cut Staff, Outlines New Search Strategy from the Wall Street Journal reports IAC has cut 8% of Ask.com’s workforce,...

Barry Schwartz | Mar 4, 2008 at 2:55 pm ET

Ask.com Adds More Sponsored Ads, Pushing Organic Results Below Fold

I was messing around with the Ask.com interface on my Mac and decided to compare some results between my Mac browser and Internet Explorer for...

Barry Schwartz | Feb 25, 2008 at 1:28 pm ET

Ask.com Binoculars Adds Compete.com Stats

Ask.com has announced that they have added site statistics from Compete.com to the binoculars feature in the search results. Now, instead of...

Barry Schwartz | Feb 21, 2008 at 9:58 am ET

Google: We Didn’t Censor Aboutrika’s Gaza T-Shirt Photo

Google’s Matt Cutts has lent his personal blog to the Google Images search team so they could debunk a rumor that Google censored an image...

Danny Sullivan | Feb 11, 2008 at 10:13 am ET

Ask Offers Smart (Election) Answers

Thanks to Gary Price for pointing out that Ask.com is offering its own round up of content and information related to the primaries via its core...

Greg Sterling | Feb 5, 2008 at 6:10 pm ET

Customizing Your Search With Ask.com

Don’t like the backgrounds available on Ask.com? No problem. Now you can upload any image you want. For instance, maybe you’d like...

Vanessa Fox | Jan 24, 2008 at 12:21 am ET

Privacy Group Finds Flaws In AskEraser’s Privacy Tool

Group says Ask’s privacy feature is flawed from News.com reports that the Electronic Privacy Information Center has found a few flaws in...

Barry Schwartz | Dec 20, 2007 at 8:59 am ET

Ask.com Launches AskEraser Giving Searches Ability To Search Anonymously

Ask.com has launched AskEraser, giving searchers the ability to search anonymously. Ask.com told us about this tool back in July, and six months...

Barry Schwartz | Dec 11, 2007 at 12:00 am ET

Search 3.0: The Blended & Vertical Search Revolution

This has been a remarkable year. After years of no real dramatic evolution in search, the third generation finally arrived. Google calls it...

Danny Sullivan | Nov 27, 2007 at 9:11 am ET

Ask.com Adds Current Time Feature For Local Searches

Ask.com is now displaying a clock showing the local time in relation to local searches. For example, search for san jose, ca, and you’ll...

Barry Schwartz | Aug 22, 2007 at 9:22 pm ET

Ask’s Michael Ferguson: Optimize For Content Rich SERPs

This week kicks off the first of our guest writers on Just Behave. This week, I’m pleased to welcome Michael Ferguson from Ask.com....

Michael Ferguson | Aug 3, 2007 at 8:35 am ET
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