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Going Green for Earth Day

We were feeling the love today with our Earth Day design, which got a few kudos from industry watchers (thanks Mashable!) And props to the Ask.com users who correctly answered the Question of the Day

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Ask for iPhone Gets a Nod from the Webby's

This week we learned that Ask.com’s flagship mobile app for the iPhone has been selected as an Official Honoree by the Webby Awards, in the Social category. We’re honored; of the close

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Have a question? Why can’t you just ask around?

When you have a question on the go, you want to be able to get a direct answer to your question rather than wading through a sea of useless blue links. It was with this understanding that we launched

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Ask.com: Getting Personal

It’s been awhile since our last post, as we’ve been heads down working on a slew of updates designed to up the quality of our users’ experience on Ask.com – that means the

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Ask for iPhone: Take that Google & Bing!

Our Ask for iPhone app went live in iTunes less than two weeks ago, and we’ve since reached an important milestone – we’re now the #1 most downloaded app in the reference section

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Ask.com Update

I wanted to share some difficult news made known to our employees today. Ask.com will close our offices in Edison, N.J. and Hangzhou, China effective over the next several months. This move was and i

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Update: Bloglines Lives!

I am happy to share with you all that Bloglines will continue – MerchantCircle, the largest online network of local business owners, has agreed to manage the Bloglines service for us and ke

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Making Question Routing Even Smarter with Social

We’re in the midst of rolling out some new features on Ask.com and wanted to provide a quick update. Growing our community the right way is key and adding value (not just bells and whistles) i

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Bloglines Update

Today, Ask.com let our users know that we will shut down Bloglines on October 1. Not an easy decision, especially considering our loyal and supportive (not to mention patient) user base, but, ultimat

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Q&A Partner Platform: Answer Questions, Do Good.

Just over a month ago, Ask.com launched the beta of our new Q&A offering, combining search technology with human insight to find the best possible answers to users’ questions. Since then, weâ

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