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Ask.com Starts Coupon Search Site
Source: sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com

Oakland search engine Ask.com Inc. has started a site for people looking for coupons and discounts. Scott Garell of Ask said "searches for coupons on Ask have shot up almost 50 percent in 2009."

Fox News goes 10 for 10!
Source: Politico

Congratulations to everyone on the Fox News team. Obviously, it takes a total team effort to be the Leader on cable news. The best way Americans can honor the men and women serving overseas is to be informed about the issues confronting our country.

It's Here! The New Ask.com!
Source: blog.ask.com

After months of hard work, late nights and truckloads of energy drinks, we launched the new Ask.com today and we're really excited about it.

Beaming Online Services Toward Blacks
Source: The New York Times

CHEAP computers and Internet connections have helped people get online in greater numbers in recent years. Now Barry Diller's IAC/InteractiveCorp wants to make money by helping minority groups connect more easily to specific sites.

Ask.com - okay, we don't actually want to be a site just for married women
Source: Forbes

You may recall that yesterdaythe AP was reporting that Ask.com wanted to be a site for married women. Not so, they say.

Wha ...? Ask.com to become a site for married women?
Source: The San Francisco Chronicle

In a dramatic about-face, Ask.com is abandoning its effort to outshine Internet search leader Google Inc. and will instead focus on a narrower market consisting of married women looking for help managing their lives.

Ask.com's Top 10 has Google, but no Britney
Source: CNET News.com

Ask.com released its Top 10 list for Web search terms for 2007 on Friday and it was noteworthy as much for what made the list as for what didn't. No. 1 is MySpace, followed in order by: Dictionary, Google, Themes, Area Codes, Cars, Weather, Games, Song Lyrics, and Movies.

Ask.com allows users to erase search queries
Source: Yahoo! News

Web search site Ask.com is launching a feature that allows users to delete data on their search queries in an effort to bolster personal privacy while surfing the Internet.

Google Stock Reaches $600 Mark
Source: Mashable!

Will Google's hotness ever end? Remember when Yahoo was number one? Google keep an eye over your shoulder at Ask.com

Patent Owner Sues the Internet - Bits
Source: The New York Times

Maybe they haven't sued the whole Internet, just a good chunk of it. Polaris IP, a patent firm, has filed a patent infringement suit against Google, Yahoo, Amazon.com, A9.com, Borders, AOL and IAC/InterActiveCorp, which owns Ask.com.

The New Ask.com: More Skin, More Features, And Simpler Still
Source: profy.com

Ask.com. There's a lot of love for the fourth-most-popular search engine on the Net. It's an industry player that's okay with not having to fight for the top spot.

Ask.com Redesign Hits a Home Run
Source: thealphamarketer.com

Internally the company is calling it Ask3D, which was created to simplify searches by getting rid of the need to continuously refine searches.

Ask Morphs: A New Approach to The Interface
Source: battellemedia.com

This is Ask, a perennial 4th place player in an increasingly one player market, doing what only a 4th place player can do: Throwing caution to the wind and betting on a new interface, one that abandons the "ten blue links" approach that has dominated search for so long.

Best of Brit Blog Awards 2007
Source: Metro

Nominations for awards to recognise the very best in British blogging - nominated by readers of the Metro in the UK and decided by a panel of celebrity judges including Creation Records founder Alan McGee and Channel Five's Jason Bradbury.

Rebranding Ask.com
Source: searchenginewatch.com

How do you engineer a major overhaul to your web site to increase traffic and user satisfaction? Ask.com's Senior User Experience Analyst describes the company's careful yet bold approach to its recent redesign in this wide-ranging interview.

Search Engine Monthly Update
Source: webpodge

Via ComScore Releases July U.S. Search Engine Rankings

:-) - Ask.com Web Search
Source: ask.com

What happens when you type an emoticon like :-) into Ask.com? :-) is an emoticon that typically means smiling Technorati Tags: emoticon smiley ask ask.com ask+jeeves

SES 2006 It s Hard Out Here For A Blogger
Source: CNET News.com

Webpro News interview with some of the search industry's best known corporate bloggers... Google's Matt Cutts, Yahoo!'s Jeremy Zawodny, Microsoft's Niall Kennedy, and Ask.com's Gary Price.

Ask.com & Bloglines Proposes Blog Search Exclusion Tag
Source: Search Engine Watch Blog

TechCrunch reports that Ask.com & Bloglines has released a new tag that can be added to your feeds named access:restriction. The tag will tell Ask.com and Bloglines that this content is private and you do not want it included in the Ask.com or Bloglines blog search engines.

Ask.com Maps - Competition for Google Maps?
Source: maps.ask.com

Ask.com has unvelied their new mapping site. Like other mapping web services this one allows you to see road maps, satellite aerial maps and hybrid maps online. Some of the imagery appeared to be newer than Google's product, but loaded a little slower.

Ask.com's Jeeves retires after 10 years of service
Source: msnbc.com

Ask.com was recently relaunched without its famous mascot, Jeeves.

GizBuzz: Jeeves bites the dust
Source: GizBuzz

Well, maybe that's a bit unfair, but Jeeves is now no longer the mascot of the search engine ask.com.

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