Ask.com News
Jeeves Made Redundant? Ask Ends Search
12th November 2010
Ask.com, which was previously known as Ask Jeeves, had restarted their Question & Answer service in July. They will now concentrate solely on this and shut down their search service. More »
Facebook To Answer Questions
12th August 2010
Q&A once again seems to be the in fashion. Following hot on the heels of Ask.com’s announcement about their return to the question and answers format, Facebook has launched a new feature called Facebook Questions in beta. More »
Ask.com Returns To Q&A Format
5th August 2010
Ask.com will soon stop working as a regular search engine as the directors have decided to take the site back to its original Q&A format. More »
Microsoft Could Buy Ask.com
4th November 2009
How far will Microsoft go, in their bid to increase the market share of their search engine Bing?
The latest rumour making the rounds is that Microsoft may buy Ask.com, which has been up for sale for a long time now. Barry Diller, the Chairman of InterActive Corp, the parent company of Ask.com, has said that the search market is challenging, and he would be quite willing to part with his search engine (In exchange, for appropriate remuneration, of course.) More »
Google Annihilates Microsoft, Yahoo! In Mobile
8th July 2009
If Global Stats from StatCounter are to be believed, Microsoft and Yahoo! might as well pack their bags and say goodbye to mobile search, because Google reportedly owns 97% of the market. More »
Yahoo! Tops Mobile Search Site Benchmark
23rd April 2009
Growth in mobile Internet access and the number of users perform search operations on their mobile phones has prompted dotMobi and Gomez Inc. to create the world’s first Mobile Web Benchmark Series, to rank the leading mobile sites with regards to their efficiency for customer operations. More »
US Search Engine Market Share Data – Jan 2009
25th February 2009
According to the latest qSearch analysis of the major U.S. search engines carried out by comScore, search continues to grow and little has changed in terms of market share of the top 5 search providers. More »
CBS + CNet, IAC + Lexico and Comcast + Plaxo
19th May 2008
In a coincidence of sorts, 3 different mergers were announced around the same time last week. The popular U.S. based broadcasting company CBS will buy web publisher CNET networks for $1.8 billion. IAC, owners of Ask.com will buy Lexico for $100 million in cash and Comcast will buy Plaxo. More »
Yahoo! Glue Mimics Ask Universal Search
12th May 2008
Yahoo! India has launched a new feature last week known as ‘Glue’ pages. They are special pages with attached visual inputs alongside the regular search results, that show up for specific types of searches. More »
Ask.com Concedes Defeat, Realigns To Target Women
6th March 2008
In what seems to be more of a cruel joke than a factual statement, the Associated Press reported yesterday that Ask.com was laying off 40 employees and realigning itself as a women’s site. More »
US Search Engine Market Share Data – Jan 2008
29th February 2008
comScore has released the latest search engine rankings data for the United States, and Google is once again at the top of the heap with almost 53% market share. More »
Ask.com Launches (Not So) BigNews
11th February 2008
New rumours doing the rounds last week, hinted at a possible collaboration between Ask.com and Digg have come true. The two have jointly launched a portal called BigNews, which is a social news site not very different from Digg, Propeller, NewsVine, TechMeme or any of the other news aggregator sites that are already popular. More »
Online Marketing Predictions For 2008
7th January 2008
We have looked at some of the leading tech blogs and heard what search marketing professionals had to say on popular forums. Based on the collective brain power of all the professionals and contributors at ReadWriteWeb, ValleyWag, TechCrunch, SearchEngineWatch and WebProWorld we have compiled a list of our favourite predictions for 2008: More »
Ask.com Parent Company Breaks Up
7th November 2007
IAC, the parent company of search engine Ask.com has announced that they will split into five companies, namely IAC, HSN, Ticketmaster, Interval and LendingTree, in order to improve shareholder and investor clarity. More »
Ask To Launch New PPC Platform On 2nd October
1st October 2007
SearchEngineWatch forums reported last week that Ask have announced the release of their new, improved pay per click advertising platform, ASL 2.0 on 2 October 2007. More »
Ask Mobile Set For UK Launch By Christmas
20th September 2007
Cool new features included in Ask Mobile GPS were reviewed in a Search Daily News article earlier this summer. The system is currently available only to US mobile Internet users. However, NMA magazine reports this week that Ask plans to make their mobile search service available in the UK by Christmas 2007. More »
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