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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. [...] Tags: Ask.com, Kara Ratliff, SES, sitemaps, Vivek Pathak Infrastructure Product Manager

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 [...] Tags: A9.com, Amazon, Ask.com, Borders, Google, Kara Ratliff, News Update, Patent Suit, Polaris IP, yahoo

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 [...] Tags: Abby Prince, Ask.com, Consumer Privacy, Microsoft, MSN, News Update

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 [...] Tags: , Ask.com, AskCity, Search Engine Strategies

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, [...] Tags: Advertising Online, Ask.com, Michael Ferguson, SEO