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Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
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Search Engine Watch Blog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
When Internet users conduct searches at Ask.com, they pose their keywords as questions three times more than any other search engine. So, it makes sense that Ask.com is focused on improving the Q&A experience on their site and on the web. Last summer, Ask launched a specific Q&A section with 300 million Q&A pairs in their database. They've recently reached the milestone of reaching 400...
WebPro News (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Where Google is a search engine, and Bing is a "decision engine," Ask.com seeks to be an answer engine. Ask thinks the future of search is in questions and answers. This means, you should be able to ask a direct question and get a specific answer, rather than pages of results, which can lead you to finding the answer on your own. It's natural language search, and it's not exactly a new concept....
Ask.com Blog (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
A few months ago at SemTech 2009 we announced that our questions and answers database –launched almost a year ago – had grown to more than 300 million high-quality Q&A pairs. “High-quality” means that we use our semantic and extraction...
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Clicker , the startup that looks to be a comprehensive video search engine for television content on the web, has launched to the public. The site made its public debut at TechCrunch50, where it generated quite a bit of positive buzz, and has gradually ramped up its private beta over the last couple months. I spoke with Clicker CEO Jim Lanzone (formerly CEO of Ask.com), who says that the site's beta...
Kelikuru (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Microsoft Bing search picked up 7 percent increase in October, 2009 while Google accounted for 70.60 percent of all U.S. search. The figures below are releasesd by Hitwise. Domain September 2009 October 2009 Month-over-month percent change google 71.08% 70.60% -1% search.yahoo 16.38% 16.14% -1% bing 8.96% 9.57% 7% ask.com 2.56% 2.62% 2% A couple of Search Engine Opitmization (SEO) factors to push up...
24/7 Wall St. (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
It is usually questionable if Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) and its new Bing.com search engine is stealing from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) or from Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) when it comes to gains in the share of internet search. Or maybe it was IAC/InteractiveCorp. (NASDAQ: IACI) and its Ask.com distant #4 search product. Hitwise is [...]
.: Internet Ad Sales :. (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Google Receives 70% of searches for same period New York, N.Y., Nov. 11, 2009 - Experian Hitwise announced today that Google accounted for 70.60 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending Oct. 31, 2009. Yahoo! Search, Bing and Ask.com received 16.14 percent, 9.57 percent and 2.62 percent, respectively. The remaining 52 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool...
Fast Company (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
In the world of the consumer, competition is a great thing. In the world of the entrepreneur, competition can also be a great thing. In the world of the internet start-up, however, competition is, without doubt, the snotty tissue filled with H1N1 virus that one takes great pains to avoid. Just ask Ryan Janssen, the founder of SetJam , an online viewing guide and search engine for TV shows. Today,...
France 24 (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Global media mogul Rupert Murdoch has accused Google of stealing from his News Corp. empire, and warned he may block the search engine from accessing its content. "People who simply just pick up everything and run with it, steal our stories -- we say they steal our stories, they just take them without payment," Murdoch told Sky News in a weekend interview here. "That's Google, that's...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch could be shooting himself in the foot if he withdraws stories from Google News The threat to exclude Google from News International websites won't have caused much lost sleep over in the search engine's headquarters in Mountain View in California. Sergey Brin and Larry Page have declared before that if news organisations don't like Google indexing their content, then...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- MyCoupons, LLC is pleased to announce an agreement with Ask.com to help power their brand new Ask Deals search tool. In collaboration with exclusive couponing and deal websites, MyCoupons provides Ask Deals with content for Ask Deals search results. The Ask Deals search tool is essentially a deal finding search engine. Products, merchant names, or anything else can...
AccuraCast Search Daily News (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
How far will Microsoft go, in their bid to increase the market share of their search engine Bing? The latest rumour making the rounds is that Microsoft may buy Ask.com, which has been up for sale for a long time now. Barry Diller, the Chairman of InterActive Corp, the parent company of Ask.com, has said that [...]
TechCrunch UK (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
[Sweden/UK] Stockholm-based Videoplaza have recruited blinkx’s former European Director of Business Development, Gavin Morgan, as its new UK Commercial Director. In his new role, Morgan will be charged with growing the ad server company's client base and increasing revenue in the UK. While at AIM-listed blinkx , which claims to be largest video search engine, Morgan helped forge partnerships...
Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
InterActiveCorp CEO Barry Diller indicated Tuesday that the company is looking for a potential buyer for its Ask.com search engine. And Wall Street analysts believe he's trying to reach out to Microsoft, reports Reuters.
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