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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. 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"?
  2. "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... ;)

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

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

    http://games.slashdot.org/