Today, Bloomberg reported that Ask.com has conceded its search business to its competitors. That means 130 engineers could go out of job (and we're going to miss their work). It’s expensive to crawl and index the web and currently no one does it better than Google and Bing. Both companies apparently have the financial muscles and expertise to stay in this game. Even Yahoo, which used to be the world’s number one search engine, has “outsourced” its search functions to Microsoft's Bing. Ask.com's President, Doug Leeds, said that Google has become too powerful ...
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Interesting: 20 Top Questions 2009 on Ask.com
When we say we can search for anything in that little white box, we mean it. People are probably asking the search engines some real interesting questions they would otherwise not ask others. Asked.com has released its list of top search questions of 2009, and we are right, they are interestingly surprising. Here are 20 interesting search questions of 2009 and I have added in my own comments as well (first 10 are top questions of 2009 and the other 10 are top questions from various categories). Enjoy! Top questions of 2009 1. How ...
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