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Ask.com to Improve Relations with SEOs

Historically, Ask.com has not been perceived as a friend of the search community. According to Bruce Clay, that relationship could change in the near future since Ask is said to be building 3 APIs to answer the specific question of “How do I rank in Ask?”

SES Chicago 2007: Infrastructure Product Manager of Ask.com, Vivek Pathak

The Infrastructure Product Manager of Ask.com, Vivek Pathak talked with WebProNews at the Search Engine Strategies 2007 Conference in Chicago. Pathak gives the audience a deeper look into sitemaps. He also gives tips as to how to improve your sitemap and tells us what Ask.com is doing to improve the overall user experience. [...]

Polaris Sues Big Names

A copyrighted patent is the topic of a future court date, as Australian based Polaris IP sues six Internet companies. Google, Yahoo, Amazon, A9.com, Borders, and Ask.com are all being sued over the usage of the Automatic Message Interpretation and Routing System. The lawsuit marks the third over the patent from Polaris, all [...]

Microsoft and Ask.com Join Forces to Protect Consumer Privacy

Microsoft and Ask.com announced their plan to devise a set of privacy principles that will give more protection and power to consumers. The companies are asking the Internet industry to back up their efforts in Web search and online advertising. Microsoft and Ask are proposing that technology leaders, online advertisers, and privacy advocates form a [...]

SES: Barry Schwartz of Search Engine Roundtable on Ask.com’s Edison Project

Ask.com has recently announced the launch of their new social media element to search. It’s a new search algorithm code-named the Edison Project. The new algorithm is a combination of two search engine technologies of Ask.com called Direct Hit and Teoma. In an interview with Webpronews at the SES conference, Barry Schwartz of Search Engine [...]

Ask.com’s Risky Advertising Campaign

Rebels break into television broadcast networks to alert internet users it’s been abducted by a powerful force; but it’s not real. Internet-search site ask.com has generated a lot of buzz since they launched their new advertising campaign in Great Britain. Their new risky strategy is geared at halting Google’s success since it is used for [...]

SES: A Deeper Look Into AskCity

If you are one who laments the long and arduous process of tracking down points of interest using online technology, you aren’t alone. Ask.com unveiled it’s new AskCity feature yesterday, which is designed to make life all the easier for the average traveler. Ryan Massie, Director of Product Management for Ask.com, took the time to [...]

Asking What Ask Can Do For You

Michael Ferguson has a bit to share on the benefits Ask.com offers for your business. Demands have far exceeded vanilla feature sets and dry, just-the-facts search results. See a demonstration of Ask.com’s vivid functions such as search expansion, maps & other key information, zoom and “binoculars.” Rather than utilizing the right column to display advertisements, [...]