Tagged: Ask

Ask.com scales back search, focuses on answers
Jeeves poised to return to question and answer formula instead of duking it out with search big-timers Bing and Google.

Google prepares to shake up the search engine market
Google dropped another 0.4 per cent in the search engine stakes last month, with the combined forces of Bing and Yahoo! scooping up its losses

Ask.com rebrands as social search engine
Struggling searcher service Ask.com has launched its new social search engine in beta.

Google to take-over ‘Social Search’ engine Aardvark
Google are set to confirm their imminent take-over of Aardvark, the 'social search' engine which takes full advantage of the global obsession with social networking.

Software vender's chart shows disturbing search trends from children
Security and parental control software maker Norton has published a list of top searches in 2009 for children under 18, under 12 and under 7. Alarmingly all age groups searched for porn.

Rupert Murdoch demands Google must pay
News Corp managing director Rupert Murdoch has laid down his belief that Google and other search engines that link to news stories in their results must pay for the right to do so.

Ask Deals service finds the best consumer bargains
Search engine Ask.com has launched a new service directing users to the best online discounts.

The third wave of search?
... has just arrived. Say hello to Wolfram Alpha.

Search engine Ask Jeeves is back
Search Engine Ask has reverted to its original title, welcoming back iconic master of question time, Jeeves the Butler.

Google's top searches down under precede year-end Zeitgeist
Google releases the year's most popular searches in New Zealand and Australia, as anticipation builds up for its global end of year Zeitgeist.