This day in search marketing history: February 29
Spreading Santorum drops on Google, plus: Bing artificially increases market share, local mobile search in apps, Susan Wojcicki and more.
Topic: Teoma
This day in search marketing history: March 3
Google Panda name revealed, plus: desktop page experience update completes rollout, Interflora gets its Google rankings back and more.
This day in search marketing history: February 18
Yahoo stops using Google search, plus: Core Web Vitals, RSAs become default, Google Shopping Campaigns For PLAs and more.
Ask.com To Focus On Q&A Search, End Web Crawling
Talk about getting back to your roots. Ask.com, which originally used humans to find answers to questions, is going further back to its origins by abandoning its web crawling technology. The Need, Or Not, To Crawl Search engines like Google and Bing try to have answers to anything someone might search for by “crawling” the […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 8, 2010
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Helps LeBron James Make His Decision On Live TV Once again taking advantage of top trends in pop culture and social search, Bing.com is hoping to shoot and score a […]
Ask.com’s Founder Of Search Technology Leaves: Apostolos Gerasoulis
I just got word that the co-founder of Teoma, the search engine Ask.com acquired to power natural search, Apostolos Gerasoulis has left Ask.com. Apostolos Gerasoulis was the executive vice president of search technology for Ask.com. If you look his Linkedin profile you will see his current position is no longer being at Ask.com. Here is […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 7, 2010
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Facebook’s “Posts By Everyone” Feature: Do People Realize They’re Sharing To The World? It’s kind of crazy. I’ve been playing with Facebook’s “Posts By Everyone” search feature recently, and many people […]
Teoma Returns As Ask.com’s “Simple Interface”
Sean Carlos wrote that Teoma.com is now back in action. Teoma was acquired by Ask Jeeves back in 2001 and ultimately became the search technology behind Ask’s search results. Teoma was founded by Professor Apostolos Gerasoulis from Rutgers and Professor Tao Yang from UCSB helped with the technology, known as Subject-Specific Popularity. Ask.com renamed Subject-Specific […]
2001 In Review: Search Engine Marketing Gets Respect, As Does Search Generally
This article is part of a series, a review of the 2000 decade and search developments. Below, major events from the year 2001 in consumer search. For the complete series, see the introduction, The Google Decade: Search In Review, 2000 To 2009. Search Marketing Gets Respect For me, the biggest story of 2001 was the […]
Happy Birthday: Yahoo Search Turns 5 Today
The Yahoo Search Blog is celebrating the 5th birthday of Yahoo’s search engine today. It was February 18, 2004, when Yahoo stopped using Google search results and rolled out its own index and ranking of web pages. (It should be noted that Yahoo continued to use Google for image search results at first, even after […]
Cuil Launches — Can This Search Start-Up Really Best Google?
Can any start-up search engine “be the next Google?” Many have wondered this, and today’s launch of Cuil (pronounced “cool”) may provide the best test case since Google itself overtook more established search engines. Cuil provides what appears to be a comprehensive index of the web, offers a unique display presentation, and emerges at a […]
Sorry, Ask.com — I Still Don’t Think You’re Focused On Core Search
Back in March, after Ask.com seemed to be pulling away from search to some people, I wrote that Ask "killed the search engine," was no longer an innovator in search, and couldn’t expect to compete against Google. Recently, I spoke with Ask.com CEO Jim Safka, who hoped to change my mind. He failed to do […]
IAC To Launch Startups, Take A Demographic Approach To Search
The Wall Street Journal reports that IAC, parent of Ask, is preparing to launch a number of startups after its spin off of some of its traditional media properties. Among the new sites is RushmoreDrive, a niche search engine targeting African Americans. What’s interesting is its demographic approach to search.
Obit: A West Coast Digerati Deadpools Ask.com
Goodbye, Ask.com. You caught my eye back in 1997 as an unusual meta search engine that asked questions to get answers. By 1998, I counted you alongside Google and Direct Hit as shining examples of what to watch in search. You’d dumped depending on others for search results and started providing answers using your own […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 3, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Ask.com Calls Dumping Teoma Search Technology Rumors False
Last week, IAC Ready To Drop Ask.com Search Technology & Partner With Google? covered rumors that Ask might be dumping its own “Teoma” search technology. Just an hour ago, I received an official statement from Ask.com saying the rumor is false. Nicholas Graham, a spokesperson from Ask.com, told me: I wanted to get back to […]
Updated: IAC Ready To Drop Ask.com Search Technology & Partner With Google?
IAC: Ready To Bail On Ask? from Silicon Valley Insider reports an insider tip that IAC may sell off or abandon their search technology and outsource it to Google. Here is the tip: There is indeed a big shakeup coming. A new Ask. Some think a reduction in workforce is likely. There are no sacred […]
Google Takes Top Prize At SMX Search Bowl
Last night was the first ever SMX Search Bowl. Basically, the Search Engine Land team created fifty questions that were asked to the various teams. The teams consisted of two players from Google, Yahoo, Ask.com, Live Search, and the SEM All Star team. Danny displayed the questions on the screen and the first team to […]
From eTours To Commanding Ask.com: Jim Lanzone’s Story
I Fought the Law from the New York Times tells the story of how Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone abandoned pursuing a legal degree and learned his true passion was for internet companies. Lanzone attended Emory University’s School of Law in Atlanta. He then worked for Justice Hugh P. Thompson at the Supreme Court of Georgia, […]
Ask.com: Today’s Google Free Alternative
Today’s the day we’re encouraging people to try Ask.com as part of our Google Free Fridays in July. But why is it happening on a Monday? Because I’m a day behind, as I explained last Friday. Shush, you! What’s that? Why do we hate Google so much to be promoting Google Free Fridays? We don’t, […]
This July: Try Google-Free Fridays!
Back in 2002, I called Google the "Marcia Brady" of search. Fans of the Brady Bunch know that Marcia was one of six children, and middle daughter Jan felt Marcia got all the attention. "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia," she’d often complain, just as today, it often seems to be "Google, Google, Google" that’s all you hear […]
Can You Get By Without Google & Major Search Engines?
There are two projects going on today to see if we can survive without the major search engines. The first project is for searchers, to see if they can search alternative search engines without using the five major engines. The second project is for search marketers, to see if they can generate enough traffic and […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 12, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Goodbye Teoma Algorithm, Hello Edison, Says Ask.com
Jim Lanzone, CEO of Ask.com, has confirmed with me that Ask.com is working on Edison. Edison is the code name behind merging of Ask.com’s two different search technologies they own, Teoma and Direct Hit. The name comes from inventor Thomas Edison, who worked out of New Jersey where’s Ask’s Teoma technology came from and where […]
Ask Ramps Up The Mystery Ads
First in the UK, Ask rolled out a guerilla marketing campaign aimed at sparking an "information revolution" to choose Ask over Google. Now a different yet still mysterious campaign is underway in the US by Ask. Valleywag reports about billboards on Highway 101 between San Francisco and San Jose saying "The Algorithm Killed Jeeves" [Ask’s […]