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Ask.Com's New Look Competes Well With Google
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."
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.
Mouse powered Chips, Open source Processors and Lego
When people started using Google instead of Altavista or Yahoo, it was IMHO because Google was better than Yahoo and Altavista was selling out and turning into sheer crap. If Ask wants to grab some market share, it will not do to be as good as Google or to offer a couple of extra nice features, even if that's an impressive feat; they will have to be so much better that people will not want to use Google anymore. Good luck to them...
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.
"0101100101? It's just jibberish. *looks in mirror, gasps* 1010011010@!? AHHHHHH!!"
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.
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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Funny, I'd like to see you say the following in future linux/microsoft bashing articles...
... what's established. They're not going anywhere, move along.
Though a competitor may try to make advances against Microsoft Corporation with revampments, Microsoft's already got the golden brand and in this industry the guy who's at the top stays there as people feel more comfortable using what everyone else uses
Thank you.
Unfortunately, I use Google because I like the results it provides.
.edu or .org or whatever to eliminate the .com domains who are trying to sell me crap.
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
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.
Yeah, yeah, but Google is a verb now. Try and compete with that, Ask.com.
... what?