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Thu 7 Jan 2010

Armstrong: Google Gets “First Dibs” At AOL Search Deal

Posted by Admin under Ask: Business Issues, Ask: Web Search, Google: Business Issues, Google: Partnerships, Latest Info

AOL’s CEO: Google To Get 1st Shot At New Search Deal from the Wall Street Journal reports AOL’s CEO, Tim Armstrong saying that Google will get “first dibs” at a search deal.
Armstrong said this at Citi’s annual entertainment, media and telecommunications conference today. This was prompted by a question about possibly using Microsoft Bing [...]

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Wed 18 Nov 2009

Ask Making A Bigger Bet On “Social Search” Or Q&A

Posted by Admin under Ask: Business Issues, Ask: General, Ask: Other, Ask: Web Search, Latest Info

If you’re the number four search engine in a market that is looking like it’s going to be about two (maybe three) players in the long run, what do you do? If you’re Barry Diller and running the parent company of Ask, the search engine in question, you’re potentially looking at selling, with Microsoft as [...]

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Tue 27 Oct 2009

Diller Says He’s Willing To Sell Ask.com

Posted by Admin under Ask: Business Issues, Ask: Web Search, Latest Info

Barry Diller, CEO of IAC — the parent company of Ask.com — said today that he’s willing to sell the struggling, fourth-place search engine. His comments came during a conference call with investors after IAC reported its 3rd quarter earnings.
“We’ve been asked a lot whether we’re open to consolidating transactions in the area of [...]

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Mon 14 Sep 2009

A Look Back At The Old Search Engines

Posted by Admin under AOL: Search Marketplace, Ask: Web Search, Google: Web Search, Latest Info, Microsoft: Bing, Microsoft: Live Search, Search Engines: Lycos, Search Engines: Other Search Engines, Yahoo: Search

The Six Revisions blog complied an excellent list of the classic search engines, some dating back to the 1990s. His list includes screen shots of both the old and current (if available) versions of HotBot, Excite, WebCrawler, Ask Jeeves, Ask.com, Yahoo, Google, Dogpile, AltaVista, Lycos, MSN Search, Bing, AOL Search, Infoseek, Go.com, Netscape, MetaCrawler, [...]

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Wed 17 Jun 2009

Ask.com Expands AnswerFarm Q&A Database

Posted by Admin under Ask: Web Search, Latest Info, Search Engines: Answer Search Engines

Continuing its move from being a traditional search engine to an “answer engine,” Ask today has announced that its “AnswerFarm” database has tripled in size, from 100 million Q&A pairs to 300 million.
Ask says they’ve also improved the quality of the Q&A database content:
“Our semantic search technology advancements in clustering, rephrasing, and answer relevance enable [...]

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Tue 9 Jun 2009

Russian Roulette: McAfee Details Web’s Riskiest Search Terms

Posted by Admin under Ask: Web Search, Google: Security, Google: Web Search, Latest Info, Microsoft: Bing, SEO: Spamming, Stats: General, Yahoo: Search

Somewhere online right now there’s a music fan who’s big on free downloads, likes Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida” but doesn’t know the lyrics, is looking for free ringtones, uses MySpace, likes to play solitaire and wants the latest game cheats. Like many of us, s/he uses a search engine to find all of these things.
This [...]

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Mon 2 Feb 2009

Ask.com & Symantec Partner To Detect Malicious Sites

Posted by Admin under Ask: Web Search, Latest Info

Ask.com has partnered with Symantec to include a new “Safe Search” feature into the Norton 360 security suite, integrated into the Norton toolbar that is part of the suite. When a search is run from the toolbar, results are safety-rated by Symantec using a color-coded icon, to flag sites or sections of sites that [...]

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