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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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  2. They need to do a lot better than Google... by g253 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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...

  3. 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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  4. Re:not about "quality" per se by Guilly · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Funny, I'd like to see you say the following in future linux/microsoft bashing articles...

    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 ... what's established. They're not going anywhere, move along.

    Thank you.