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Ask.Com's New Look Competes Well With Google

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the head-to-head-face-to-face dept.

Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "Ask Jeeves has been overhauled and renamed Ask.com. The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg tested the new site against Google and found that Ask.com holds its own and even beats the search champ in some cases. 'It has some very nice features Google lacks, including previews of the sites it finds, an easy way to narrow or broaden your search results, and frequent top-of-the-screen answers that lead you directly to core information,' Mossberg writes."

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  1. I think... by Machina+Fortuno · · Score: 2, Funny

    It really boils down to a basic mistrust by the population of the name "Jeeves"

    I used to use ask... but switched to Google cause all the cool kids were doing it. That, and the color red pisses me off!

    The next thing for ask.com... change name to "Google_eats_souls_use_us.com"

    While their homepage design may be a little simpler... Google still loads quicker. Cause I gotta have my extra 5 seconds with page loads... it is a matter of National Security.

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  2. Poor Jeeves... by PoitNarf · · Score: 5, Funny

    Last I heard was that Jeeves was so upset about being dropped that he clocked an ask.com board member on the head with a pipe in the ballroom.

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    "0101100101? It's just jibberish. *looks in mirror, gasps* 1010011010@!? AHHHHHH!!"
  3. Oblig. Simpsons Quote by agraupe · · Score: 2, Funny

    I know what we can ask Jeeves: why does he suck?

  4. Google has one big advantage... by NthDegree256 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, yeah, but Google is a verb now. Try and compete with that, Ask.com.

    ... what?