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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."

4 of 128 comments (clear)

  1. Whatware. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "and, (what counts most) fewer ads than any of the rivals."

    Let's hear it for a return of the dot.com.

  2. Re:YUCK! by Flimzy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://www.budugly.com/

  3. Google is King of the search engine hill by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I have sworn my allegiance to Google from years of seeing how they operate. From the "Don't be evil" mindset to releasing software for Linux. Good times! Hiring up some really bright minds (though they already had/have so many) and bringing a product to their intended audience quickly (whether from their own labs or purchasing a company) with a lot of simplistic yet very functional features. Forget Cringley's prediction and facination with Google. Just sit back and enjoy the show, knowing you will not be disappointed in future Google offerings. I'm not an employee or anything (though that would be delightful). I live in North TX for you demographic types.

  4. Re:Unmasking the AC... by cswiger2005 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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

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