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Ask.com's Rising Star

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the going-up dept.

hdtv writes "Fortune magazine takes a look at Ask.com, a site originally designed to respond to queries in human language that grew into a full-blown search engine after the Teoma acquisition. According to Fortune, Ask.com has many features not available with rivals -- topic clusters, quick facts from Wikipedia on the search page, and, (what counts most) fewer ads than any of the rivals. Currently Ask.com maintains 5.9% share, a share that Fortune is sure will grow."

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  1. Re:"Quick Facts from Wikipedia" ??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    the first "Internet Generation" of kids who went through school believing everything they read on the Web

    They must have bee working for the CIA in the leadup to the illegal invasion of Iraq.

  2. Priorities by GeorgeH · · Score: 2, Funny
    Ask.com has many features not available with rivals -- topic clusters, quick facts from Wikipedia on the search page, and, (what counts most) fewer ads than any of the rivals.
    If that's what matters most to you in a search engine, wouldn't Goatse.cx (R.I.P.) have been better than Ask, Google and Yahoo combined? I don't think it had any ads...
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    Why can't I moderate something "Wrong" or at least "Grossly Misinformed"?
  3. "how many fingers does a human being have?" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ask.com's first result is a webpage on How many fingers can you fit into your ass?. Now that's useful... ;)

  4. Re:YUCK! by RLiegh · · Score: 2, Funny

    >I would like to ask, is there any website UGLIER than ask.com?

    http://games.slashdot.org/