Looks like that big shake-up at Ask was so violent it muddled the brains of the company’s executive leadership.
This morning the company announced plans to retool itself as a search engine for housewives. Seems Ask.com believes its core demographic is married women living in the American South and Midwest looking for information about health, hobbies, [...]
Sounds like search outfit Ask is having a bit of, ahem, engine trouble. Employees tell Valleywag that the company is buzzing with talk of layoffs. And now come reports that Ask proprietor InterActiveCorp (IACI) may soon scrap Teoma, the engine that powers the company’s search. “There is indeed a big shake-up coming,” a company insider [...]
Barry Diller may have managed to turn Fox into a legitimate fourth major broadcast network. But he hasn’t had much luck doing the same thing with Ask.com in search. Despite Diller’s best efforts, Ask’s share of the search market dropped to 4.6% in November from 5% in November 2006, according to comScore.
“We have certainly [...]
This morning Ask.com became the Internet’s least intrusive search engine. Too bad it’s also one of least used. Because with a 2.9% share of the search market, few are likely to pay much mind to the title.
That said, “AskEraser,” which allows users to delete their search queries and related data (IP address, user ID, session [...]
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What an odd bit of coincidence this is. Amid increasing scrutiny of Google’s privacy practices and its planned $3.1 billion purchase of DoubleClick–which some say would concentrate too much consumer data in its hands–Microsoft and Ask.com are calling upon “leading search providers, online advertising companies and privacy advocates” to develop “privacy principles” for the search [...]
Like its “algorithm” ad campaign, Ask.com’s redesign is certainly getting its fair share of attention, but will it gain the company some market share as well? Because as the inveterate fifth-place contestant in what’s rapidly becoming Google’s one-player market, Ask could certainly use it.
Dubbed “Ask 3D,” the company’s redesign seems at once an answer to [...]
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1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
Best video mashup ever.
A Facebook Memorial
Wow.
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
Excellent.
Flughumor!
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
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