Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'ask'

Today is Veteran's Day and the search engines, well most of them, are commemorating the day. We have logos from Google, Bing, Ask.com, AOL and even here but not from Yahoo, at least not yet. Here are the logos. Google:...

Posted on November 11, 2009 7:30 AM

Happy Halloween! Here are the logos from the search community including Google, Yahoo, Bing, AOL, Ask, Dogpile, and so many more. For the past years logos, see 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 and 2004 logos. Here are 2009's Halloween logos: Google...

Posted on October 31, 2009 7:48 PM

Today is Labor Day in the United States and the search engines have special logos up, except Google and Yahoo. There is no surprise there, historically, Google and Yahoo never have logos for the Labor Day holiday. So although Google...

Posted on September 7, 2009 9:13 AM

Did you know that both Yahoo and Bing cannot tell the time in Tehran, Iran? A Bing Community thread points out the issue with Bing. Let me share with you searches for [time tehran] from Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask and...

Posted on July 9, 2009 8:23 AM

Happy July 4th All! Here are the logos celebrating the special day from Google, Yahoo, AOL, Ask, YouTube, Bing, Dogpile and many others. Google: Yahoo: AOL: Bing: Ask: Dogpile: YouTube: Search Engine Roundtable: For past July 4th logos from the...

Posted on July 4, 2009 10:05 PM

This is my first time being a father for Father's Day, so it is a bit different for me now. I am about to go to sleep here on the East Coast but many of the logos from the search...

Posted on June 21, 2009 1:02 AM

Some more sad news for the struggling search engine, Ask.com. Ask is closing down Ask Japan, aka Ask.jp on June 25th. Bill, the moderator of the Asia specific forums at WebmasterWorld explained that Ask.jp is "reorganizing to focus on B2B...

Posted on June 12, 2009 8:04 AM

Today is Memorial Day in the United States of America. And to recognize the day, Google, Yahoo, AOL, Live.com, Ask.com, DogPile and others have special logos up. Google, who is known not to show a special logo for the day,...

Posted on May 25, 2009 6:42 AM

Last night the news that Jim Safka, Ask.com's CEO for the past 16 months or so, has decided to step down from the role for personal reasons. What personal reasons? "Jim has decided to move on from Ask.com, following the...

Posted on May 13, 2009 8:25 AM

Happy Mother's Day to all you mothers out there! Here is a collection of logos from the search industry, celebrating Mother's Day. We have logos from Google, Yahoo, Live.com, Ask.com, AOL and others. Google: Yahoo (animated): AOL (animated): Live.com: Ask.com:...

Posted on May 10, 2009 8:36 AM

Today is Earth Day and many of the search engines have created special logos to remind people of the day! We have Earth Day logos from Google, Yahoo, Microsoft's Live.com, AOL, Ask.com, DogPile and others! Google: Yahoo (animated): AOL (animated):...

Posted on April 22, 2009 6:21 AM

Ask has decided to bring Jeeves out of retirement, at least in the UK, and rebrand Ask.co.uk as Ask Jeeves UK. If you visit uk.ask.com you will see a question with the new Jeeves on the home page, that reads,...

Posted on April 20, 2009 8:41 AM

Today is the holiday of Easter, it is also Passover. Some search engines have special logos and themes for the day, while others don't. Google, Yahoo & AOL are all missing special logos for Easter or Passover. Microsoft's Live.com, Ask.com,...

Posted on April 12, 2009 10:49 AM

Today is the first day of spring and Google, Live.com, AOL, FriendFeed and others have special logos and themes live on their home pages today. It is also Nowruz, the beginning of the Iranian year and is a secular holiday...

Posted on March 20, 2009 6:01 AM

Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone! The mandatory line, please drink responsibly! I wanted to share with you the logos from around our industry celebrating the day. We have logos from Google, Yahoo, Microsoft's Live.com, AOL, Ask.com, DogPile, YouTube and others!...

Posted on March 17, 2009 7:35 AM

Ask.com has gone too far. I have given them a lot of negative attention recently but they deserve it all. They are now framing the landing page of the search results. Let me rephrase that... If you search at Ask.com,...

Posted on February 27, 2009 4:01 PM

Today is the ever so popular Mardi Gras and some of the search engines have special logos for the day. Google, Yahoo and Ask.com are missing logos, but AOL, DogPile, Live.com and others have logos. Let me archive those logos...

Posted on February 24, 2009 7:31 AM

Today is President's Day, a legal holiday in the United States. It is around the time of Washington's birthday and it is used to celebrate all the Presidents of the United States every year. But today, Google and Yahoo do...

Posted on February 16, 2009 8:50 AM

Happy Valentines Day everyone! Here are the logos from the various search engines: Google had two logos, depending on where in the world you were: Yahoo's animated logo: AOL's animated logo: Live.com's Theme: Ask.com's Theme: DogPile's logo: YouTube's logo: Cre8asite...

Posted on February 14, 2009 7:20 PM

Yesterday, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft announced together a new way to handle internal duplicate content issues with a new "canonical" header tag. Vanessa Fox does an excellent job explaining what it is all about in her piece at Search Engine...

Posted on February 13, 2009 9:25 AM

Today is the day Barack Obama becomes the 44th President of the United States of America. It is Inauguration day and this one, is more hyped up then any other inauguration I have ever witnessed. That being said, we have...

Posted on January 20, 2009 7:30 AM

Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day and many of the search engines, including Google, Yahoo, Ask.com, Live.com, AOL, and others are remembering the day with special logos. Here is a collection of logos from the various search engines in...

Posted on January 19, 2009 7:22 AM

Happy New Years Search Engine Roundtable readers! I would like to wish you a happy and healthy 2009 from myself and the whole search industry. To keep up our tradition, below is a collection of special logos from the 2009...

Posted on January 1, 2009 7:55 AM

I just wanted to wish everyone a warm and happy holidays! Every year I try to echo the same message about our industry. From the search engines, the search marketing firms and the search community, this industry is truly a...

Posted on December 25, 2008 9:25 AM

Want to know the hottest search terms across the various search engines? Yahoo, Ask, and Google [Product Search] have listed the most popular items. Here's what Yahoo has as its top 10 searches: 1. Britney Spears 2. WWE 3. Barack...

Posted on December 2, 2008 9:47 AM

We wanted to wish all you American's a Happy Thanksgiving. As you can see, if you click through to the Search Engine Roundtable, we have a special theme live for the day - it is worth checking out. In addition,...

Posted on November 27, 2008 7:32 AM

When Ask.com retired Jeeves, I was quite sad. The guy was a friendly web presence and he had the craziest answers to some of the funniest questions. But Jeeves retired, Ask.com essentially dissolved itself, and it looks like Jeeves is...

Posted on November 5, 2008 9:24 AM

Today is election day in the United States of America, if you haven't noticed. To note the day, several major search related sites, including us, have posted special logos, themes and content. Note, Yahoo does not have a special logo...

Posted on November 4, 2008 10:59 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread has pretty sad reports about the current status of Ask.com's web search technology. The thread reports the following issues: Search results per page shift between 10 per page and go down to about 5 per page, depending...

Posted on November 3, 2008 7:26 AM

Here are various logos from the search industry, including Google, Yahoo, Microsoft's Live.com, Ask.com and many others. Some are pretty spooky, including our theme. Google's Halloween Logo: Yahoo's Flash Halloween Logo: Yahoo's Static Halloween Logo: DogPile's Halloween Logo: Live.com's Halloween...

Posted on October 31, 2008 6:30 AM

In February 2006, Jeeves was retired by the folks at Ask.com. It was a sad experience, but it happened. Back then, the Ask blog thanked Jeeves for all his work and set up a special site at (WARNING, do not...

Posted on October 27, 2008 7:35 AM

Today is Columbus Day and we have a special theme up for the day. It looks like this: But if you visit Google, you will see a Paddington Bear 50th birthday logo up for today. The logo looks like this:...

Posted on October 13, 2008 5:50 AM

If you want to read my thoughts on Ask.com's relaunch, see what I wrote at Search Engine Land named Ask.com Goes Back To 1996 With New Release. Today, I want to take you through some interesting observations from a WebmasterWorld...

Posted on October 7, 2008 7:28 AM

Back in February, I spotted how Ask.com was showing up to five Google search ads above the organic search results. It only happened when using Internet Explorer on a PC, because (I guess here) the Ask.com team didn't want to...

Posted on September 4, 2008 8:05 AM

Like last year, Google, Yahoo and Ask.com do not have special logos up for Labor Day. But Dogpile and even Live.com have logos or themes live for the day. Here is DogPile's logo: Live.com has a mention of Labor Day...

Posted on September 1, 2008 8:44 AM

The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China start officially today. To celebrate the day, Google, Yahoo and Ask.com all have logos and themes up. We also have our theme up, we hope you like it. Here is the Google...

Posted on August 8, 2008 9:22 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread reports Ask.com's crawler has seemed to slow down to a halt. Some webmasters are reporting zero crawling activity from Ask.com, while others are reporting extremely limited crawling activity. WebmasterWorld moderator, jdMorgan, noticed the slow down to, he...

Posted on July 18, 2008 8:14 AM

Happy July 4th everyone! We have special logos and themes from across the search industry, including a special logo from Google, Yahoo and even a pretty neat theme from us, the Search Engine Roundtable. Here is the logo from Google:...

Posted on July 4, 2008 10:00 AM

Our boss man Barry spoke with Jim Safka of Ask.com in a lengthy interview three weeks ago, and he's come out unimpressed by Ask.com's approach toward search. In the interview, Ask.com takes a stab at larger search engines (the big...

Posted on June 26, 2008 10:13 AM

Happy Father's Day fathers! We have a special video edition for you, where you can win schwag from Google, Yahoo, Live Search and others. In any event, I hope all the fathers out there have a wonderful day. Here...

Posted on June 15, 2008 9:59 AM

comScore released its April 2008 rankings last week, and it appears that Google has increased its search share to 61.6% up from 59.8% the previous month. Even though this is an overall view of search traffic, forum members wonder if...

Posted on May 26, 2008 9:11 AM

Historically, most search engines do not place a special logo up on their home page for Memorial Day. I am not sure why, I know it is just a U.S. holiday - but typically, the lack of a special logo,...

Posted on May 26, 2008 8:33 AM

Yesterday was Mother's Day and the search engines and search industry blogs/forums had special themes and logos up for the day. Here is a compilation of the logos I found: Google: Yahoo (Flash): Dogpile: Ask.com Cre8asite Forums Search Engine Roundtable...

Posted on May 12, 2008 7:17 AM

Today is Earth Day and the search industry is sporting special logos for the day. Here is a run down for the 2008 logos: Google: Yahoo (Flash version): AOL: Ask.com: Cre8asite Forums: Search Engine Roundtable (our theme, it actually glows):...

Posted on April 22, 2008 9:13 AM

Yesterday afternoon I got word that IAC laid off 8% of the Ask.com workforce and I wrote a blog post named IAC Cuts 8% Of Ask.com & Kills Search Engine. Let me summarize what IAC told the press. (1) They...

Posted on March 5, 2008 7:45 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread has one member spotting Google search results in the Ask.com web search results. textex, who has been a WebmasterWorld member since 2003 and I personally find to be a trusted forum informant said last night: I am...

Posted on March 5, 2008 6:59 AM

Friday afternoon I reported at Search Engine Land on a Silicon Valley Insider report that IAC was going to force Ask.com to drop Teoma and the Teoma team and syndicate Google's search service. They would either sell of Teoma or...

Posted on March 3, 2008 7:49 AM

Barry has posted at Search Engine Land that Ask.com is adding Compete stats to its Binocular site preview feature. When you perform a search, you see binoculars on the side of the page which shows a page preview. The second...

Posted on February 22, 2008 9:22 AM

On January 7th, we asked you to vote on the most improved PPC program of 2007. Your votes are now all in and I wanted to share the 76 responses. Overall, most of you felt Yahoo Search Marketing was the...

Posted on February 14, 2008 7:27 AM

Happy Valentines Day everyone! As usually, here is a collection of logos and themes from the search engines for the special day. Yahoo.com had their logo up yesterday, here is the animated version: Yahoo UK & Ireland has a unique...

Posted on February 14, 2008 6:10 AM

Google launched Universal Search back in mid-May of last year. Since then, SEOs and Webmasters have become interested in how to leverage that to their benefit. But some are just upset and want the universal search blend to go away....

Posted on January 22, 2008 7:45 AM

Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day (more over here) and for the special day, we have a special theme live. Here is what it looks like: Google, DogPile and Ask.com also have themes up. Yahoo and Microsoft's Live seem...

Posted on January 21, 2008 6:46 AM

Earlier this week, we reported that Ask.com Crawler Inserting Url-Encoded Spaces in URLs Causing 404 Errors. In short, Ask.com's crawlers were crawling badly formed URLs, causing tons of 404 errors in web server log files. Vivek Pathak, Ask.com's Infrastructure Product...

Posted on January 4, 2008 7:03 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread is reporting several webmasters noticing that Ask.com's crawler has recently been generating tons of 404 (file not found) errors on their sites. The issue appears to stem from Ask.com auto inserting URL-Encoded spaces into the URL. URL-encoded...

Posted on December 31, 2007 6:53 AM

The holiday season is here, you can tell if you just browse the web and see all the sites sporting fun logos and themes. As you can tell, we have our holiday theme live now. Google has holiday logo number...

Posted on December 21, 2007 10:31 AM

As you may know, today is the 8th and final day of Chanukah. But we haven't yet discussed our pretty theme that went up last week nor have we highlighted other themes on search engines around the web. Here's the...

Posted on December 12, 2007 11:48 AM

I wrote a long post on the launch of AskEraser at Search Engine Land, titled, Ask.com Launches AskEraser Giving Searches Ability To Search Anonymously. But honestly, if you think about it, AskEraser does not erase data, it is a bad...

Posted on December 11, 2007 7:51 AM

I have been watching a thread started by Barry W. at Cre8asite forums named Blogsearch, Google's Neglected Property back about a month or so ago. Since then, I have been trying to find a good blog search engine to use...

Posted on November 26, 2007 7:07 AM

Hitwise, a competitive intelligence service, has released its October 2007 numbers, indicating that Google dominated the search landscape that month with over 64% of searches performed. Yahoo, MSN, and Ask followed, with numbers at 21.65%, 7.42%, and 4.76%, respectively. Is...

Posted on November 20, 2007 8:54 AM

IAC, the parent company of Ask.com, is breaking up into 5 different publicly traded companies: IAC (which will include Ask, Bloglines, and a number of other web properties), HSN, Ticketmaster, Interval International, and LendingTree. And so Ask.com will now stand...

Posted on November 6, 2007 9:41 AM

Today is Halloween and the search industry, from Google, Yahoo, Ask.com, Dogpile, us at the Search Engine Roundtable and others, have decided to dress up for the day. Here are some of the logos and designs the companies have released...

Posted on October 31, 2007 7:47 AM

A DigitalPoint Forums thread reports seeing a small Ask.com algorithm and index update. I personally took a look at my traffic for this site and compared this past week to the week before and saw a 30%+ increase in search...

Posted on October 22, 2007 8:02 AM

Seems like Google, Yahoo, Ask.com and Microsoft Live Search all are not sporting anything exciting or new for Labor Day. They have not done anything special in the past either, so it is not too surprising. Dogpile is sporting the...

Posted on September 3, 2007 8:55 AM

The Times Online in the UK interviewed Jim Lanzone, chief executive of Ask.com. Asked about Google, Lanzone has an interesting reaction to his competition. Instead, asked what it's like taking on the most formidable website on the planet, he breaks...

Posted on August 10, 2007 9:23 AM

A Search Engine Watch Forums thread asks why are the ads on Ask.com still served up from Google. Yes, we all know Ask.com has their own sponsored listing program. But often the ads on Ask.com come from Google. For example,...

Posted on August 3, 2007 6:50 AM

There are some reports via WebmasterWorld that Ask.com has completed some type of search update. It is hard to tell for sure, since the volume of traffic received from Ask.com is typically low. So any increases and decreases, percentage-wise, can...

Posted on August 2, 2007 7:43 AM

Happy July 4th! Today there will be light posting, we do have several articles scheduled to go live today, but this one is the most fun. Here is a look at the various logos around the search world, Google, Yahoo,...

Posted on July 4, 2007 8:06 AM

Yesterday was Father's Day and some of the search engines sported new logos for the special day. Google had: Dogpile had: Yahoo had flash: And here at the Search Engine Roundtable: Ask.com did not have a logo for the day,...

Posted on June 18, 2007 8:04 AM

digg_url='http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/013827.html'; The other day, I was chatting with my brother-in-law while flying back from St. Louis. Some how, the conversation about "The Algorithm" commercials came up. I went into the history behind the whole campaign, describing how Edison was...

Posted on June 13, 2007 7:13 AM

With all the new buzz around Ask.com and their campaigns, TV commercials and new user interface, a WebmasterWorld thread and Search Engine Roundtable Forums thread decided to take a look at a fundamental issue with their indexer. Robert Charlton, WebmasterWorld...

Posted on June 12, 2007 7:51 AM

Ask.com has relaunched their search engine last night to "provide people with a faster, easier, and richer search experience." Ask.com has decided to use the three pane interface and many of the features from the Ask X interface. Here is...

Posted on June 5, 2007 8:36 AM

Google rises in market share, MSN falls badly and Yahoo just hovers in place. There was a thread this morning on WMW about the April 2007 stats numbers just released by Nielsen/NetRatings. According to them: Microsoft saw its share of...

Posted on May 24, 2007 11:35 AM