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InternetNews
July 28, 2010 |
Ask to Begin Offering 'Community' Search Results Ask.com is expanding trials of crowd-sourced search results, inviting users to "ask the community" in an effort to provide direct answers to queries, rather than the standard bank of links.   |
Search Engine Watch
May 26, 2005
Sherman & Price |
Ask Jeeves Serves Up New Features Ask Jeeves is rolling out two new enhancements today that help searchers quickly focus queries and get direct answers to questions without using complex commands or advanced search tools. |
InternetNews
February 12, 2010 |
Google Goes More Social With Aardvark Buy In purchasing Aardvark, Google looks to extend its social media reach with a service that taps into the knowledge of the online community for answers. What do competitors say? |
Information Today
August 9, 2010
Woody Evans |
Facebook Questions & Ask.com: Cashing in on Mass Ignorance Indicators point toward a substantive change in the tone of the web, along the lines of the paradigm shift from directories to search engines. Two recent developments typify this change at Facebook Questions and Ask.com. |
Search Engine Watch
March 6, 2008
Kevin Newcomb |
Ask.com Remains Committed to Search The reports of Ask.com's death have been exaggerated. The company is not throwing in the towel, as many believe. |
InternetNews
October 6, 2008
David Needle |
Ask.com Overhauls to Take On Search Leaders The latest version of Ask.com includes a revamped interface and other features designed to simplify a user's quest for the right results. |
InternetNews
November 17, 2009 |
Factery Aims to Go Beyond URLs in Search Results Initial release lets developers add FactRank technology to get authoritative results. |
InternetNews
November 29, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
Google Answers Ends Its Run If you have a question for Google Answers, you better hurry up and ask it. Later this week, Google will shut down the service, which allowed people to pose questions, for a fee, in the hopes of getting the perfect answer. |
Search Engine Watch
October 10, 2006
Brian Smith |
A Closer Look at Ask's Smart Answers Ask.com has truly differentiated itself with the "Smart Answers" it returns for thousands of queries, offering facts, images and targeted links that respond directly to a searcher's information need. |
BusinessWeek
November 11, 2010
Stone & Pulley |
Diller's Ask.com Stops Searching IAC/InterActiveCorp has decided that Google is unstoppable in search, so it's recasting Ask.com as a Q&A site. |
The Motley Fool
December 14, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Google Steals Some Answers Google is apparently gearing up to relaunch its Google Answers; this time the Q&A offering will feel a lot more like Yahoo! Answers. |
The Motley Fool
September 9, 2010
Balasubramanyam Seshan |
Google Challenges Microsoft, Yahoo With Instant Search Google's Instant Search may be an instant boost to its market share.. |
Searcher
September 2010
David Mattison |
The Twittering of the Search World In this article, I look at some of the ways in which the three biggest search engines, along with Twitter Search and several other third-party vendors, attempt to fine-tune the ceaseless cacophony of Twittering tweeps to extract useful information for your queries. |
PC World
January 30, 2008
Erik Larkin |
Ask.com Rises to the Top of the Pack in Search Privacy AskEraser puts you in control of your search data, giving Ask.com a leg up on rivals. |
InternetNews
August 14, 2009 |
Twitter Filled With 'Pointless Babble,' Study Finds Researcher comes to the arresting conclusion that 41 percent of the content on Twitter is "mindless" status updates. |
Search Engine Watch
October 5, 2005
Chris Sherman |
New Features at AOL Search AOL continues to improve its web search capabilities, today adding a number of new features designed to appeal to casual searchers and power users alike. |
InternetNews
March 12, 2010 |
Twitter Takes Geo-Location Feature Live Now you can let the twitterverse know where you're tweeting from. But why? |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2004
Greg R. Notess |
On The Net - Search Engine Prefixes and Shortcuts An online searcher offers tips and practical advice on efficient and effective online searching using shortcuts and prefixes. |
InternetNews
February 23, 2005 |
Yahoo Improves Its Images Enhancements to its image search include an increase in the image index. |
BusinessWeek
October 1, 2009 |
Threats on the Horizon Despite many well-publicized failures of would-be Google killers, fresh combatants keep coming. Here are some of the most prominent. |
Search Engine Watch
January 22, 2011
Dean Stephens |
Turning to Social Media & Search Engines for Smart Health Answers How health marketers can ensure consumers find answers to their most important health questions in a timely manner. No one wants to wait for hours to figure out if they need to see a doctor. |
Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Internet Top Information Resource, Study Finds A study that monitored 74 people over four days during the Fall of 2000 shows that Americans need answers to four questions per day, spend nearly 9 hours per week looking for those answers, online or off, and that the Internet has become their top information resource... |
Search Engine Watch
March 27, 2009
Frank Watson |
Does Twitter Reflect a Change in How We Search? Google will always be a major presence on the Web, and the place to go for certain types of information. When once we looked to the engines for all quick finds of needed information, we're now getting some of that from the global village of social media. |
AskMen.com
January 31, 2001
Justin Becker |
How To: Use Search Engines Well, no need to feel lost anymore -- here is a map of which search engines I highly recommend, and which ones to use for specific searches. And since information is power, you'll feel like king of the world in no time... |
PC Magazine
November 16, 2004
Helen Bradley |
Understanding Queries and Reports Learn to extract your database information in the form you need. |
Search Engine Watch
May 15, 2009
Michael Boland |
Twitter and Local Search: A Status Update Twitter search brings structure to all the noise with an index of real time conversations. but is the excitement around Twitter causing us to force unnatural mashups, as with local search? |
InternetNews
August 19, 2008
David Needle |
Can Semantic Search Change Our Lives? Does making search a more natural process and getting relevant results quicker sound life changing? |
PC Magazine
February 17, 2009
Nick Douglas |
Six Ways to Make Twitter Useful Twitter's usefulness goes far beyond finding out what strangers ate for lunch. Read breaking news, get customer service, or even chat with your favorite celebrities. |
InternetNews
September 8, 2010 |
Whoosh! Google Instant Speeds Search Results Looking to extend its lead as the most popular search engine, Google launches new technology that provides results much quicker and right on the page before the full query has been typed. |
InternetNews
August 12, 2009 |
Web Search Headed From GUI to LUI A smarter Web could be a boon for marketers and users alike. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2009
Powell, Colliins & Martinez |
The Fierce Urgency of Now: A Proactive, Pervasive Content Awareness Tool An information awareness tool that supports text composition by providing awareness of relevant content and references proactively and non-intrusively. |
CRM
September 23, 2004 |
The Pulse How did you integrate your sales process with your CRM software? Here's a chart with survey answers. |
Search Engine Watch
March 24, 2010
Kevin Gibbons |
Should You Worry About Real-time Search? Marketers think real time search is a flop. Google thinks it improves relevancy of search results. Who's right? |
Search Engine Watch
June 8, 2006
Danny Sullivan |
Look Out Wikipedia, Here Comes Yahoo Answers! New stats add fuel to the idea that Yahoo Answers is perhaps becoming a social interacting phenomenon like YouTube or MySpace. A look at the service's growth and how it works. |
Information Today
March 5, 2009 |
Tsavo Launches Twithority Search Engine for Twitter Twithority returns Twitter search results rapidly, looking back as many as 1,000 results. |
Salon.com
June 21, 2001
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Google a go-go While other search engines sputter and fail, Monika Henzinger, Google's director of research, has an answer to every query... |
InternetNews
August 8, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
AOL Leaked Search Queries Privacy issues drive another search engine to delete user data. |
InternetNews
August 31, 2009 |
Global Searches Soar as Google's Lead Widens A high tide of search lifts all boats, but buoyant Google furthers its distance from the pack in the latest comScore analysis. |
InternetNews
March 2, 2010 |
Google, Microsoft & Yahoo Tout Real-Time Results Representatives from the three leading search engines, Google, Yahoo and Bing, discuss and debate their strategies for bringing real-time results to their search engines. |
InternetNews
December 10, 2009 |
Yahoo Throws More Love Twitter's Way Expanded integration of relevant Twitter tweets into search results keeps pace with announcements by Google and Microsoft. |
InternetNews
August 17, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Sizing Up the Search Competition In the Google-Yahoo rivalry, does the bigger index do a better job? |
Search Engine Watch
February 7, 2007
Eric Enge |
Think Like a Search Engineer Knowing when you are taking risks, or making the decision to avoid them, can help scale your search engine marketing strategy to new heights. |
InternetNews
October 12, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Ask.com Intros Mobile Search Ask.com has introduced Ask Mobile, a new service for searching the Web from mobile devices. |
The Motley Fool
October 28, 2004
Tim Goh |
Asking Is Too Much for Jeeves An unsatisfactory conference call and disappointing forecasts send the search engine's shares tumbling. |
InternetNews
May 26, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Ask Jeeves Zooms in on Relevance Ask Jeeves unleashed Zoom, a related-search tool to help searchers narrow or expand the topic, and Web Answers, which provides answers to explicit or implicit questions. |
Information Today
April 11, 2005
Nicholas G. Tomaiuolo |
Google Unveils New Q&A Service Despite a few bugs and no search tab Google rolls out Q&A, a service providing quick answers to your questions. |
InternetNews
October 14, 2009 |
Twitter Growth Plateaus, Facebook Continues Surge Latest comScore data suggests Twitter's unique visitor count has hit the skids. |
Search Engine Watch
May 4, 2010
Eric Enge |
Google Killer? Enough Already! All of the prospective "Google killers" have had something to offer, but none of them are near replacing Google. Here's why. |
The Motley Fool
May 15, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
IAC Looks It Up IAC buys the parent company behind Dictionary.com. |
Information Today
February 19, 2008
Tara Calishain |
Ask BigNews Takes Advantage of Content 2.0 Ask.com has launched a large, loud, and social news search of its own called Ask BigNews. |
