Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'ask'

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