So Ask.com wants to sell Woman’s Clothing – go all at as a Woman’s Portal? I know it was a misunderstanding – and I’m having fun with it – see a post in Marketing Pilgrim with Ask.com reassuring us they Will “Continue to be a Great Search Engine” Really? “The idea that we’re going to [...]

Just read about IAC Cuts 8% Of Ask.com & Kills Search Engine over at Search Engine Land: “..It is clear to me that cutting an already overworked staff shows that Diller is clearly not wanting to invest in competing against Google. In fact, the Wall Street Journal clearly says that by reporting they are focusing [...]

Not surprising – but given all the hype of Teoma at Search Engine Strategies and other search conferences I attended in 2004, 2005 and 2006, one wonders what went wrong? Ask.com’s Search Engine Share went up even – but maybe it’s not really about the search results as much as the Ask.com 3D Interface – [...]

Thanks to a Tweet from Jay Mettle of Compete.com earlier today, I found out about news that Jay had hinted about for a couple of weeks; Ask and Compete have partnered in improving Ask Search by including Compete.com web traffic information. You can find the information in a post on the Ask.com blog titled “Better [...]