Ask: General
Ask.com exposing real-time user queries to the public
Ask.com left its server status Apache page open to the public, exposing private search data to the...
Ask’s New App Search To Be Powered By Quixey
Quixey and Ask have entered into a deal in which apps from Quixey’s database, whether for mobile or the PC, will be integrated into...
The Big Ask Of 2012: Do You Search For Team Kstew Or Rpatz?
Ask.com’s 100 million users remain almost as loyal as Twihards, prompting us to ask if searchers are on Team Jeeves or Team Diller when...
Ask CEO Doug Leeds Proclaims Search Wars “Over,” Says Yahoo Can Be Great Again
Ask.com has 3.5 percent of the search market according to comScore. Ask.com CEO Doug Leeds told Bloomberg that number may seem small but it...
Google Valentine’s Day Logo Features Tony Bennett’s Cold Cold Heart
Google has a pretty sophisticated logo, aka Google Doodle, today on their home page for Valentine’s Day. Also celebrating with special...
2012 New Year’s Day Logos From The Search Industry
Welcome to 2012 and Happy New Years Day everyone! We wanted to share with you the logos and themes from the search engines for New Years! Google...
Happy Thanksgiving Logos From Google, Yahoo, Bing & More
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Below is a collection of the 2011 Thanksgiving logos and themes from the search engine industry. Including...
Google’s Halloween Logo Made Up Of 6,000 Pounds Of Pumpkins
There is a special Google logo on Google for Halloween today, the logo is a video of Google’s Doodle team carving the Google logo out of...
Ask.com Returns To TV With Spot Emphasizing Q&A
Ask.com has a long history in TV advertising; some of it has been entertaining and some of it controversial. But the IAC-owned search engine was...
Ask.com Opens Up Its Human Q&A Community, Steps Further Away From Search
After more than a year in beta, Ask.com today opened the doors on its community-based question-and-answer product. It positions Ask as much less...
Ask.com Celebrates 15th Birthday
Ask.com the social search/Q&A engine is 15 years old. Founded in 1996 as Ask Jeeves by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen the company has...
Google’s 2011 Mother’s Day Logo & More Logos
Today is Mother’s Day in the United States and many many other countries and for the special day, Google and the other search engines have...
Google’s Interactive Earth Day Logo
Today on Google’s home page is a special interactive Google logo for Earth Day. Earth Day this year falls out on Good Friday and for the...
St. Patrick’s Day Logo Not On Google.com
This is the first time in years that Google does not have a St. Patrick’s Day logo on the Google.com home page. Google does have a special...
Ask Launches Local Conversations iPhone App
Ask.com noticed some interesting behavior happening on its Q&A iPhone application. People were trying to have “conversations” in...
New Year’s Eve & Day 2011 Logos From Google & Others
Happy New Year’s Eve everyone, except for you in the Australian region, where it is New Year’s Day! On behalf of the Search Engine...
Ask: Mobile Users Want “Fresh” Information in Real Time
An Ask.com survey, conducted by Harris Interactive (n=1,538 US mobile phone users), finds that user expectations on mobile devices (especially...
Happy Thanksgiving From Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask & Others
We wanted to wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving! This year, like other years, we have a nice array of special logos and backgrounds from the...
Veteran’s Day & Remembrance Day Logos At Google, Bing & Ask.com
Today is Veteran’s Day in the United States and Remembrance Day in the United Kingdom. Google, Bing and Ask.com have special logos for...
Ask.com To Focus On Q&A Search, End Web Crawling
Talk about getting back to your roots. Ask.com, which originally used humans to find answers to questions, is going further back to its origins...