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Archive for the ‘ASK’ Category

December 20th, 2006

ASKX.com, The Future of ASK

I just stumbled upon a new experimental ASK interface at ASKX.com. They write about it here:
Thanks for stumbling upon Ask X, our double-secret sandbox for testing Ask experiences of the future.

In today’s version of Ask X, you’re not just getting back a list of links, but a slick, new three-panel interface (much like the new […]

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November 5th, 2006

ASK Snags Lycos from Underneath MSN

ASK had reached a deal which will allow it to aggregate it’s search results to the “the fifth most popular U.S. Web portal”, Lycos. Under the terms of the deal, Ask.com will provide Web search, image search, and zoom search for the Lycos Network. As part of the deal, Lycos will also start using […]

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October 5th, 2006

ASK Weather & Earthquakes Revamped

I just noticed that ASK smart answers for weather had been revamped. Their blog lists 9/28 for the official post regarding the changes, but I think they are substantial enough to be reported…
Anyways, what used to look like this for the term weather, Washington DC:

Now looks like this:

The new and enhanced page offers a new […]

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June 7th, 2006

Ask - Weather Search

With summer right around the corner, Ask adds a weather search as a part of it’s “Smart Answers” which appear at the top of the page. This is a very useful feature, it has a “ºF | ºC” option on the top right corner for quick conversion and gives an array of results, for current […]

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June 5th, 2006

Ask Gains Momentum and Introduces Blog Search

One search engine that has definately been flying under the radar is Ask. While many of it’s rivals are busy schmoozing the press with services and redesigns, Ask seem to have been working on improving it’s design, user experience and over-all package.
Aparently this work hasn’t gone un-noticed, with a recent Fortune magazine endorsement titled Ask.com: […]

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March 31st, 2006

Ask’s April Fools Prank

As I am done posting about the fake Google prank I saw that Ask had dished it’s own April Fools prank. Why today? who knows, maybe wanted to take the weekend off…
It started with a blog post asking the readers what should they do with this “exciting new service” they are ready to launch, wait […]

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February 27th, 2006

So Long Jeeves

It is final, Jeeves is done and gone for a better place. As reported on Ask’s blog, they even had a movie produced for him titled Jeeves Leaves, a masterpiece by J.D. Ryznar.
More coverage:
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/003362.html [SE Roundtable]
http://battellemedia.com/archives/002368.php [Battelle Media]
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/?p=3003  [Search Engine Herald]
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January 20th, 2006

How Long Does it Take to Get Indexed and Ranked in MSN and ASK

Trying to keep up with Work, Blogs and Forums, I sort of get caught up before the latter and never really get to follow much. Barry, on the other hand, has been doing a great job covering the different Forums, finding (and posting) the gems among them (good job Barry).
A couple of forum threads this […]

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January 16th, 2006

[Some] Search Engines Dress Up for the Occasion

For those of you who don’t know, today, it is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the US and some search engines have their “Doodles” up for the day. Normally, Yahoo will be in the pack, but today it is missing…

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December 20th, 2005

At Jeeves it is Already Winter

Jeeves has been busy this past weekend, building a snowman…

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