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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. Website time-lapse by brejc8 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I made some nice animations of the way the some sites have changed their layout (google, ask and altavista). Both altavista and ask are turning more and more google like.

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    1. Re:Website time-lapse by brejc8 · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I looked at altavista for the first time in years and noticed it being very google like and so I thought it would be nice to see how and why it changed. The script was pretty simple to make but took a while to run (overnight for each one). I like doing stuff like this as it improves my skills in different languages (in this case it was perl) and I thought learning a lot of languages might be an idea before writing my own.

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  2. Ask.com Maps and Directions by Lord+Satri · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I took a look at TFA. Is it me or they don't discuss this new important feature: Ask.com Maps & Directions.

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  3. Re:Poor Jeeves... by PoitNarf · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I found the ask.com cover story for Jeeves disappearance. I'm not buying it!

    http://sp.ask.com/en/docs/about/jeeveshasretired.h tml

    http://blog.ask.com/2006/02/thanks_jeeves.html

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  4. Re:For the lazy by hackstraw · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Unfortunately, I use Google because I like the results it provides.

    What else is there?

    With google I can do:

    my doctor's last name my_city, state

    Hit return, and at the top of the page there is the phone number to call. If only the number was hooked into an autodialer, when that comes, it will be cool.

    Google has usenet searches.

    Google has news searches (I get confused sometimes between news.google.com and groups.google.com, but...)

    Google has search by domain searches. Very useful to do .edu or .org or whatever to eliminate the .com domains who are trying to sell me crap.

    Google is instantaneous. ask.com is slow right now.

    Google has image searches.

    Google has video searches.

    Google will have music searches.

    Google...

    Yes, I'm a happy user. Thanks for Google having the best real estate on the web, and those greedy link parking whores that pay for my searching capabilities. Not to mention that its refreshing that I can buy ANYTHING that I search for at eBay while I'm at it. Very convenient.