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  Seriously! User Switches To Ask.com Over Google.

  Fetched: September 1st, 2011, 12:25am CEST by Barry Schwartz

  Tags:  Ask.com Ask Jeeves  

  We've seen users dislike Google's changes over the years. We've seen users say they will switch search engines before.

  Heck, we've seen thousands of users say they will switch from Google to Bing.

  I've never seen, at least not in the past few years, users tell Google they will switch to Ask.com!

  But that is what one user said in a Google Web Search Help thread. He said:

  Why would you rather lose customers than turn off autocomplete? I am stopping use of Google and going back to Ask.com.

  Of course there is a way to turn it off but who cares. This user said he will go back to Ask.com.

  Ask.com is not a search engine - so please, if you are going to switch from Google, at least go to Bing.

  Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help.

  
  

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  Ask.com's 15th Birthday

  Fetched: May 11th, 2011, 10:46pm CEST by Barry Schwartz

  Tags:  Ask.com Ask Jeeves  

  15 years in the Internet world is like 100 and Ask.com is like a 100 today. It is their 15th birthday and they have really come full circle.

  From starting as a question and answer service to getting into web search and then going back to a question and answer service.

  It has been a hard 15 years with ups and downs. I won't point out all my very harsh criticism of them on their birthday, that would not be nice. You can simply scan the Ask.com category if you wish.

  I like how Greg Sterling summed it up:

  • July 1999: Ask Jeeves goes public
  • March 2005: IAC buys Ask Jeeves for $1.85 billion
  • February 2006: Jeeves the Butler goes into retirement
  • April 2006: Steve Berkowitz, head of Ask.com, leaves to join Microsoft. Jim Lazone named CEO of Ask
  • June 2007: Lanzone launches innovative Ask 3D UI, which other engines copy to varying degrees
  • January 2008: Lanzone is out as Ask CEO, Jim Safka replaces him but later leaves
  • April 2009: Jeeves the Butler returns in the UK
  • July 2009: Doug Leeds takes over as CEO of Ask
  • July 2010: Ask embraces âsocial searchâ (Q&A) and establishes current strategy

  A very happy birthday Ask.com and wishing you another 15 years!

  If you want a larger version of the Ask.com background today, click here.

  Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

  
  

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  Diller Steps Down At IAC To Improve Company?

  Posted: December 3rd, 2010, 12:51pm CET by Barry Schwartz

  Tags:  Ask.com Ask Jeeves  

  Big news yesterday around the parent company of Ask.com, IAC/InterActiveCorp's CEO and chairman, stepped down as CEO to become the senior executive of IAC. In addition, one of IAC's large shareholders, Liberty Media, has fully bought out of their shares for $220 million in cash and the IAC's Gifts.com and Evite.

  Diller said he stepped down as CEO because the company wasn't being managed correctly. So he is stepping closer, not stepping down.

  Either way, he declared Ask.com not a search engine a couple weeks ago and now this major shake up. I doubt they are directly related but interesting stuff is going on there now.

  Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.