Ask.com launches new Web search site

[temi]

Ask.com is expected to launch Tuesday a new search site that has analysts impressed, but it may not appeal enough to consumers to keep them coming back.
The company has struggled for years to compete with Google, which attracts nearly 50 percent of all searches. Ask ranks fourth behind Yahoo and Microsoft but just ahead of AOL, with just more than 5 percent market share, according to research firm ComScore.

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[bochgoch]

INFORMATION REVOLUTION ... the new search from ask ... not personally impressed ): can't see anything different about it at all -- except the hype ... (oh and some binoculars which I've not seen yet)

[maldives]

Do people still use ask? I thought it is google alone these days.

[rakib]

Nice to know it. Google will get a new competitor.

[maldives]

Nice to know it. Google will get a new competitor.

I don't think google will treat ask as a competitor. :uhoh:

[temi]

You are right, Ask is milessssssssssssssssss away from every challenging MSN let alone Google

[bochgoch]

Competition with Google is futile -- it's run by the Daleks

[gkd_uk]

I guess it's only Microsoft who have a chance of competing with Google, that's if they purchase Yahoo

[OldWelshGuy]

Microsoft WILL challenge Google when they launch their new vertical.

For the life of me however I just can not work out why MS don't buy ask as it is a FAR superior algorithm than The one trick pony (links) that Google use.

The old Teoma algo (which ask now uses after they bought Teoma) is a superb clustering sematic algo that is SOOOO hard to spam

[temi]

I may be short sighted but some how, don't you think MS need to challenge Yahoo first and become number 2 before it can challenge Google? The gap between Yahoo and MSN is quite significant.