Ask.com Does Use Search Marketing Tactics

May 23, 2006 - 7:30 am 0 by
Filed Under Ask.com

Last week I wrote Ask.com Promoting via TV But Not via PPC? where I noted Ask.com appeared not to be using search ads to promote the engine. But they are using TV ads, like often, to promote the engine. Last night I was watching 24 (who wasn't) and I saw one of the Ask.com commercials. It was the one about the "pimped out search engine." So I decided to see if they are advertising for that keyword at Google.

So guess who is advertising for pimped out search engine? Not Google, not MSN, not Yahoo - Ask.com. Would it be smart for the three other search engines to bid on that term also? I suspect so, but I also suspect that they wouldn't out of respect. There are some times results from the other engines, when broad match comes in, but it may require a few refreshes of the page.

Here is the ad.

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