EXTRA! Butler Speaks from Beyond the Grave
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Written By Reprise Media | June 7, 2006 | Share This
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Old Jeeves may have gone the way of the Betamax but that doesn’t mean that Ask.com is slowing down. Read on for updates on what the search engine has coming up next:
Everything’s Better Here FORTUNE recently published a flattering article on Ask.com and how the search engine’s technologies are improving. Here’s a snip:
“Unlike Google, Ask gives you content before ads, includes previews, and offers related links, including those like ‘Ozone Layer’ that you might not have thought of. Of the three other major search sites - Google, MSN, and Yahoo (Research) - only Yahoo comes close to delivering value comparable to Ask.com, but even then with a much less well-designed screen.”
The article in full is here.
See Ya! Bloglines CEO Mark Fletcher, whom SearchViews interviewed shortly after its Ask acquisition, will be moving on. Fletcher posted this announcement in his blog, which says he’ll be spending more time with his cats, who have “begun to run with a bad crowd”. Umm…sure. More here in Search Engine Watch.
More For Me, Less for You Biz writer Barbara Grady has a lengthy piece on Ask.com’s mission to grab more of the market share from competitors like Google. Grady draws on multiple sources and a well thought-out background to make her case that it might not be a pipe dream after all.
Topics: Ask.com |