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Ask, the famous developer of search software has just announced the availability of its Ask.com Android application. Even though it dropped its search operations, the company seems to be focused on delivering its Q&A-centric platform to multiple mobile platforms. Initially launched for iPhone, the company's Q&... |
24 August 2011
06:22 GMT |
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In a time where Google, Microsoft and Yahoo seem to be the main players in the Internet game, Ask.com has somehow managed to hold its position and preserve its users for 15 years.Founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen under the name of Ask Jeeves, the company slipped on a somewhat descendant slope unti... |
10 May 2011
16:24 GMT |
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Nuance Communications has announced that its innovative voice technology is now powering the voice recognition capabilities in the new Ask for iPhone application from Ask.com. The news comes amid talks of Apple acquiring Nuance for its expertise in voice-recognition technology based on a statement made by Apple Co-Fo... |
23 November 2010
10:37 GMT |
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Ask.com, the perennial underdog in the search game is giving up its search efforts and will be focusing exclusively on Q&A from now on. Most of the company's search team will be let go. The search engine will not be shut down, as it still commands a piece of the search market, but Ask will outsource crawling, in... |
10 November 2010
05:50 GMT |
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After preparing the ground for about a year, the new Q&A service from Ask.com is about to hit the web on July 29th, Business Insider reports. The grandfather of all Q&A services, Ask.com has slowly built its infrastructure, preparing resources and users for this moment right here, growing momentum and the industry ex... |
27 July 2010
03:13 GMT |
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If you think the search landscape is unbalanced now, things are about to get even worse. For all intents and purposes there are three players in the search market right now, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. For several years though there has been a perennial fourth, Ask.com, which hasn't managed to get any traction ... |
28 October 2009
06:21 GMT |
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With the economy still in a dire state people are looking to save and they're doing it online. Coupon searches have shot up tremendously recently but no one has jumped at the opportunity to offer a service to simplify the process. Until now that is, as Ask.com, somewhat of a rounding error in the search market, ... |
6 October 2009
05:57 GMT |
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A hot trend in search right now is question and answer sites with a host of new services or updates like the recently launched Hunch or the revamped Mahalo Answers going back to the original Yahoo Answers. Even Wolfram Alpha is encouraging users to ask questions instead of using keywords but second-tier search engine... |
18 June 2009
05:42 GMT |
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Symantec and Ask.com have announced a new partnership designed to deliver secure web search results by providing users with ratings that flag websites that could infect their computers with malware.Safe Search will offer site ratings during the search process, so when Norton users will conduct a search task directly ... |
4 February 2009
08:11 GMT |
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The Ask.com team has decided to give itself a boost and, at the same time, move closer to the hearts of the users who conduct online searches. The company has just announced a multi-annual partnership with Photobucket, the famous photo and video-sharing website. For starters, an Ask.com search box will be "prominentl... |
11 July 2008
03:56 GMT |
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Microsoft's Virtual Earth platform is continually gaining popularity, not only from the perspective of increased audience as from additional heavyweight players on the online world ready to embrace it. The latest example in this context is Ask.com. Ask Maps, Business Search (City), Smart Answers (Web Search), an... |
2 July 2008
11:33 GMT |
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Nobody has ever doubted that Google is the most popular search engine on the Internet and the statistics released every month simply confirm this statement. Nielsen Online released the Top US Search Providers ranking for April 2008 revealing, once again, that Google is the king of the web when it comes to search engi... |
21 May 2008
16:31 GMT |
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Rumors that IAC will cut down some 100 jobs at Ask.com were not totally false, but completely exaggerated the number. Only 40 people were let go, making up for 8 percent of the search engine's work force. The shovel in the forehead that nobody saw coming, though, was the announcement that Ask.com will change its... |
5 March 2008
04:26 GMT |
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The unsettling winds of change are being felt by Ask.com staff, as parent company IAC has announced some serious changes coming up. Among the options talked about in higher circles are completely selling off or abandoning the current search technology and outsourcing it to Google. Were Ask.com a bit bigger in the sea... |
3 March 2008
13:51 GMT |
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The first ever SMX Search Bowl took place last night and had teams from Google, Yahoo!, Ask.com, Live Search and the SEM All Star Team line up at the starting line. A fierce battle they fought, dodging trick questions prepared by Search Engine Land, but in the end the cup was all the teams wanted and everything else ... |
28 February 2008
03:47 GMT |
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The news service and site from Ask.com has a pretty original approach to the old-time, old-school, traditional maybe, view of news. It has something out of Google News, but it also has a Digg spin, with people being able to vote the stories they like most and propel them higher in the rankings.BigFactor is what the c... |
7 February 2008
04:59 GMT |
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The holiday season is the time when people usually consider the things they've done in the previous year, stop to ponder about whether they're happy at their job, if they are emotionally satisfied with the person they're next to, you know, this sort of stuff. I'm betting it's all the free tim... |
22 January 2008
10:27 GMT |
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Knowing how important keeping users happy is for any web company, the main search engines have decided to pay homage to Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday and designed doodles, or changed the background on their homepages. All except for a few, amongst which one will stand out from the rest, as you'll see.Go... |
21 January 2008
09:29 GMT |
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Last year, several companies decided to bundle all kinds of additional utilities into their software installation packs, being attracted by money and other goodies offered to them. For example, ZoneAlarm got the Ask.com toolbar, so every new user who wants to install the security solution may also deploy the browser ... |
17 January 2008
13:06 GMT |
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The reported move of Jim Lanzone, the CEO of Ask.com, out of his office and the entering of Jim Safka in his place may look puzzling to the outside world, but not to the IAC, the parent company of the search engine. Letting go of the person who turned your business around and made your company get noticed, and even p... |
10 January 2008
06:29 GMT |
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Don't you dare say you've never heard of this before, because it isn't true and you know it! Besides, if you lie, it will count on Santa's list of people who have been good and/or naughty for the Christmas to come. Asking directions is an expiation for some drivers who feel that they are stranded ... |
7 January 2008
04:51 GMT |
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As usual, the biggest search engines have reached to the public and chosen yet again to lighten up the atmosphere with some very special holiday logos that are displayed on their homepages. The trifecta is the first to make its move and it has chosen to do it all at once: first Google, then Yahoo and Ask.com.Google h... |
21 December 2007
09:53 GMT |
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Users' privacy has always been one of the most discussed matters when it came to search engines, because some of them are able to store information about the past activity, IP and obviously, search queries. Because of that, the giant search engines struggled to improve the privacy using several methods. Google, ... |
11 December 2007
05:42 GMT |
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While not being close to Yahoo and Google when it comes to terms of users and queries conducted through it, Ask.com is a cute search engine that mostly caught on in the United States and is one of the few sites that joined the two mentioned before in their attempt to put a smile on the users' faces, on holidays ... |
4 December 2007
10:40 GMT |
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Yesterday brought searchboth.co.uk to the market, and, as you might gather from the title, it is a site that allows its users to search both the Google and Yahoo search engines at the same time.The way this is done is by splitting the screen in half and placing each of the search results on one of the sides. The resu... |
15 November 2007
07:05 GMT |
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Ask.com and PriceRunner announced they have reached an agreement to launch a UK shopping portal which is supposed to allow the local consumers to buy stuff straight from their computer. The juicy part is that the two companies plan to offer 200 different product categories which might represent one of the largest UK ... |
30 October 2007
16:31 GMT |
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Following the recent reports sustaining that Ask.com's Toolbar contains a security flaw which might enhance hackers' attacks, the parent company struggled to discover and patch the security hole in no time. Ask.com proudly announced today that its toolbar was patched and you're now protected if you use... |
1 October 2007
06:56 GMT |
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Patent company Polaris is suing numerous Internet companies under the pretext that they infringed one of its patents. Among the firms which will go the judge, I can mention Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Ask.com and some others. According to Miguel Helft from The New York Times, Polaris claims that all these companies infrin... |
29 August 2007
04:11 GMT |
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The Sunnyvale giant Yahoo announced that it joined the alliance of Google and Microsoft and decided to reduce the period to make user data anonymous to no less than 13 months. This is the shortest amount of time granted by a company since Google chose to anonymize the user data after 18 months, similar with the Micro... |
26 July 2007
08:54 GMT |
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While Windows Vista is an immense harvest field for collecting user data, Microsoft made the first step for the search engine industry designed to enhance the current feeble level of consumer privacy. In this context, the Redmond company has found an ally in Ask.com, and together, the duo is urging companies to put t... |
23 July 2007
09:00 GMT |
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The famous Google is again the best search engine in the United Stated with more than 65 percent of the total searches conducted from the country. According to Hitwise, Google recorded 65.13 percent of the searches in May 2007, almost the same percentage as in April (65.26%). In the same month of the last year, Googl... |
21 June 2007
08:35 GMT |
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Ask.com is definitely one of the Google rivals but until now, it didn't manage to challenge the Mountain View company as we expected. However, Ask.com's officials want more from their video service and are now trying to lure customers to the newly released Ask3D using a commercial published on YouTube. Acco... |
6 June 2007
04:54 GMT |
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A Ukrainian researcher prepares one of the largest security advisories ever released concerning the Internet search engine. It seems that the researcher aims to present vulnerabilities and security issues discovered in some of the most famous Internet technologies including Google, Yahoo, Ask.com and MSN. According t... |
22 May 2007
04:56 GMT |
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