Comments on: Ask.com Experimental Search Is Effectively Nothing More Than An Ad Engine

By: Michael Ritter

Michael Ritter — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:52:15 +0000

Ask.com has already failed. The other search engines regularly update their search results. Ask.com continues to have outdated search listings and links to sites that no longer exist–even after ask.com recrawls these sites. There are serious poroblems with the ask.com algorithims. I have sent numerous emails to ask.com when I notice one of these mistakes and I have not gotten a response in over 6 months. I wonder if they have essentially closed up shop and shut have a skeleton staff in place trying to get as much advertising dollars in before they announce bankruptcy.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:58:39 +0000

OXY Search has a universal style web search results page with 13 natural results in main search results body plus 7 sponsored search results. Just 4 sponsored results on top and 3 at bottom.

Plus it has additional related content in the right rail. Here is a search for Cars:

http://www.oxys...Cars&st=web

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‘Overheard on Twitter’ Friday — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:43:17 +0000

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By: The Anatomy Of An Ask.com Results Page | BenSpicer.com

The Anatomy Of An Ask.com Results Page | BenSpicer.com — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:48:14 +0000

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Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:03:54 +0000

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By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:10:32 +0000

An ajax search engine that has no ADS http://askalexi...earch/?q=stocks

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:33:09 +0000

To be honest, I just started using Ask instead of Google because I can’t stand search wiki. However, I hid the Ask ads with a little CSS and a Firefox addon called Stylish.

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By: Calvin

Calvin — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:17:05 +0000

As a matter of fact, it has:

http://www.ask....p;o=0&l=dir

By: Calvin

Calvin — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:16:41 +0000

As a matter of fact, tt has:

http://www.ask....p;o=0&l=dir

By: Jakob Homan

Jakob Homan — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:34:56 +0000

If you start typing st to try the stock search, the top result it’s guessing you’re typing is “staph infection pictures.” That’s really the most common search beginning with “st?” Ask must have really weird users…

By: darryl

darryl — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:31:08 +0000

When I searched for dogs, I got 4 ads before the first result, but then I was signed in.

By: I Hate SEO

I Hate SEO — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:21:06 +0000

@SES chicago… one thing thats missing from the conferences… not one of the speakers have said anything about making your site better for your audience. I’ve only heard about how to make your site better suited to convert traffic into sales and optimizing ads for sales… oh content is king… so make sure you have content otherwise people won’t convert to sales. Buzz term Searchandizing… buzz word segmentation… Pretty sad. Guess it boils down to “all media does is deliver an audience to an advertiser.” Oh and Ask is on the trade show floor selling “Sponsored Ads”

By: PureDezigner

PureDezigner — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:04:44 +0000

I can’t stand the fact that ask.com will not index http://www.puredezigner.com, I have submitted it like 3 times.

By: Tug

Tug — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:50:53 +0000

That’s why no one uses Ask… :]

By: nycat

nycat — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:54:51 +0000

Ask not what you can get, ask what you can do! NY rules

By: James

James — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:35:10 +0000

I use http://www.tubewoo.com for all my visual search needs and realtime news.

No Ads!!

By: huh

huh — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:57:50 +0000

I would re-hire Jeeves and ask him to ask Alfred to ask Bruce Wayne for tips on managing an empire while fighting crime on a part-time basis.