Ask.com's Rising Star

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."

Comments

Re:YUCK!

[Flimzy]

http://www.budugly.com/

Re:Unmasking the AC...

[cswiger2005]

Dear AC--

You posted this maliciously false comment at 5:30PM, which corresponds very well with:

33# grep slashdot.org /var/log/httpd-access.log | tail -5
216.145.49.15 - - [03/Jun/2006:17:24:13 -0400] "GET /~chuck/ HTTP/1.1" 200 4747
"http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/03/04192 34&threshold=-1" "Mozilla/5.0
(Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4"
[ ...other hits snipped... ]

34-ns1# whois 216.145.49.15

OrgName: Yahoo! Inc.
OrgID: YAHOOI-2
Address: 701 First Avenue
City: Sunnyvale
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 94089
Country: US

NetRange: 216.145.48.0 - 216.145.63.255
CIDR: 216.145.48.0/20
NetName: YAHOO-NET-1
NetHandle: NET-216-145-48-0-1
Parent: NET-216-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Assignment
NameServer: NS1.YAHOO.COM
NameServer: NS2.YAHOO.COM
NameServer: NS3.YAHOO.COM
NameServer: NS4.YAHOO.COM
NameServer: NS5.YAHOO.COM
Comment:
RegDate: 2000-08-09
Updated: 2005-08-23

RAbuseHandle: NETWO857-ARIN
RAbuseName: Network Abuse
RAbusePhone: +1-408-349-3300
RAbuseEmail: network-abuse@cc.yahoo-inc.com

RTechHandle: NA258-ARIN
RTechName: Netblock Admin
RTechPhone: +1-408-349-3300
RTechEmail: netblockadmin@yahoo-inc.com

OrgTechHandle: NA258-ARIN
OrgTechName: Netblock Admin
OrgTechPhone: +1-408-349-3300
OrgTechEmail: netblockadmin@yahoo-inc.com

# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2006-06-03 19:10

Now, isn't that special? Is it Yahoo!'s policy that you were following when you claimed I was on the