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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."

2 of 214 comments (clear)

  1. One big difference by Araxen · · Score: 4, Informative

    Ask.com throws big ad searches first before any of the results you actually want. Google ads are off to the side. I'll stick with Google still.

  2. Re:For the lazy by npietraniec · · Score: 3, Informative

    I just did a search for my name and it returned documents on my website that have been gone for years... Their cache on my last name is HORRIBLY out of date... Just one search though, maybe they can compete better on more common terms.