Comments on: Non-Google search news

By: Nancy

Nancy — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:47:26 +0000

I can tell you that users will develop, very quickly, a hate against ASK.COM when they go on like this. The same way they did against MS.
Especially europeans want to have a CHOICE, and not being told where to look.
Besides, Google is much customer friendly and considerably less annoying, if you ASK me!

Let’s wait and see ……

By: Digitale Signatur

Digitale Signatur — Mon, 14 May 2007 19:17:13 +0000

I do hope that major search engines will unite some major commands like “site:” or “link:” etc. as well as share a commitment in providing the backlinks data, which MSN / Live currently doesn’t.

By: Andy Fletcher

Andy Fletcher — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:18:01 +0000

Saw the AD on a tube last Friday on my way to the Natural History Museum with the kids and was intrigued enough to have a look when I got home.

What surprises me most is the huge number of comments on the site flaming it for what it is that have been published. Presumably moderating comments goes against what the site “claims” to be all about, but then, it isn’t what it claims to be about anyway. It’s a commercial exercise, not a “revolution”.

Most ironic campaign I’ve seen in a while – doubtless ASk would like it to have never happened.

By: Baron Turner

Baron Turner — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 21:20:57 +0000

Has anyone noticed that with ie7 the google search facility (generally top right) only has searches through Google.com if Google are chosen as the search method? So if you’re in Canada, or the UK, the search results are sub-optimal? If this becomes the default search mechanism (as it is doing) users aren’t getting good results and will stray from Google – as will be welcomed from Microsoft, developers of ie7 (of course!).
You can change to a ‘national’ Google as the choice – but man! You have to jump through some hoops – and even then I can’t get it to persist! 99% of users aren’t going to bother – they’ll just go to Yahoo or MSN instead.
Regards
Baron

By: jeff Hall

jeff Hall — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 15:41:57 +0000

http://www.silverstall.com/images/nonstockphotos/vandalism.jpg

is it fair or right for property to be vandalised in the name of corporate advertising? A marketing campaign which incites or encourages those less responsible members of society to vandalise is an extremely dangerous and ill-thought strategy.

By: Markus Hübner

Markus Hübner — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 08:18:37 +0000

I wonder what the future relevance of Ask.com in the ever evolving search engine market is / will be.

By: Shawn Snarski

Shawn Snarski — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 17:47:19 +0000

Why does the word ’snarky’ always make my ears perk up and look to see who’s calling me?

By: DerbyMark

DerbyMark — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:08:51 +0000

Quick update on the Google v Ask stats (with a bit of MSN and Yahoo thrown in for good measure) for my site since my first post:

Google & Yahoo crawlers have been every day to my site, MSN nearly every day and Ask once. However my home page has now appeared in Asks results, but only the home page. Well at least thats a start.

For the entire month of March to date and according to my site stats (AWstats) Google has been responsible for 84% of the search engine traffic to my site, MSN 3%, Yahoo 3%, Other 9% and Ask 0%.

The above just goes to re-inforce my own personal belief as a user of search engines that I should continue to use Google as first choice. Google still has almost 3 times as many pages indexed v Yahoo and MSN. Why, I do not know but I’m wondering whats up with the other search engines and the whole time its adding to my perception that Google is better, Google is more efficient, Google must have bigger spiders (tarantulas maybe).

Is a monopoly a good thing? Probably not, but whats the alternative, use a substandard search engine? Not likely. The solution – spend less time whinning you other search companies and spend more time developing better products that give us a proper reason not to just use Google.

By: Jim Olsson

Jim Olsson — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:12:05 +0000

To convince a Google Worshipper that his God is no good is impossible. Especially with this limited space and with my own direct links not allowed.
As a final example, I searched by date for “george w bush”:
Results 1 – 100 of about 72,100,000 over the past 3 months for “george w bush”. (0.05 seconds)
Results 1 – 100 of about 72,200,000 over the past 6 months for “george w bush”. (0.08 seconds)
Results 1 – 100 of about 72,200,000 over the past year for “george w bush”. (0.07 seconds)
Results 1 – 100 of about 61,900,000 for “george w bush”. (0.09 seconds) ANYTIME!
Google works with approximations here and otherwise. Bad approximations and a seriously flawed algorithm resulting from a number of badly tested additions to the pagerank foundation. Use an alternative for example Windows Live instead.

By: Throw Pillows

Throw Pillows — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:54:24 +0000

ASK must improve their Algo and adding several basic useful commands for websmasters to use.