Search engine expert Danny Sullivan says that breaking the Google habit might be hard but it can be done. He demonstrates by showing search results for the term “oscar winners” on the major search engines – the images show that Microsoft Live Search and Ask.com are the clear winners. They provide the pertinent information in a format that is easy to view and overall has a better user More»

Consolidation in the Web space continues under the backdrop of a deteriorating economy. It is providing cash rich companies with an opportunity to buy other businesses at a discount. It is a great time More»

By Peter Young Given the recent improvements announced by Google it should come as no surprise that another search engine has recently announced a raft of improvements to their search experience. This More»

Is there life beyond Google? According to this session’s speakers, the answer is YES, YES, YES, a resounding YES! As the early afternoon bell rang at SES Chicago 2008, a diverse panel of speakers More»

The wife of Ask.com founder, David Warthen, is facing tax evasion charges on money she allegedly made while working as a prostitute. The charges against Cristina Schultz, 35, are related to $25,424 in More»

Ask.com has migrated off of their mapping platform and onto Microsoft’s Virtual Earth platform. Ask follows suit of many portal sites letting Microsoft make the heavy investments in infrastructure, More»

Ask.com’s parent IAC is the latest to join the already crowded ad network space. The company announced that it is planning to build an in-house ad network.
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Ask.com, plans to acquire Lexico, which owns Dictionary.com, as well as Thesaurus.com and Reference.com. Ask.com’s chief executive, Jim Safka, declined to disclose terms of the deal but it is estimated More»

How did the top four search engines perform in the first 4 weeks of the year? Data from Hitwise shows that Google accounted for 65.98% of all US searches. Yahoo followed with 20.94%, MSN Live Search at More»

Ask.com is leveraging the core capability of what the mobile phone does best i.e. transit speech, to provide voice-activated directions. Ask.com Mobile announced that they’ve added a new option to More»

Here are some holiday logos being featured on the sites of Google, Yahoo, and Ask.
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Google is expected to start adding blogs in the next week or so to its universal search results, an initiative which was launched back in May. According to Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products & User More»

In case anyone missed it, Ask.com also released their “Top Searches for 2007″. Topping the list for the second year in a row was ‘MySpace’, followed by Dictionary, and ironically More»

comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace for September 2007. Google remained the top search property with more than 5.3 billion core More»