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The Next Frontier in Search: Questions & Answers
A few months ago at SemTech 2009 we announced that our questions and answers database –launched almost a year ago – had grown to more than 300 million high-quality Q&A pairs. “Hig 1134 views 
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Ask Is 'Dancing on Air': “Who Wants a Deal? We Do, We Do!â€
We know the economy has been down, and that’s getting folks a little ‘down’ about finding savings in these tough times. Well, with Ask Deals, we’re convinced you’ 1232 views read more
Get Smarter on the Go with Dictionary.com’s Free Dictionary & Thesaurus Application for BlackBerry
It’s been six months since we launched our iPhone app and three million+ downloads later, we’re excited to take the next major step towards offering our unique experience to even more S 1315 views read more
Ask Deals: Your One-Click, One-Stop Shop for Savings is Here!
Consider this: a tough economy with new, record job losses. Families gathered around kitchen tables with a pencil and calculator trying to make ends meet – every week. The fact that †1253 views read more
Ask.com Celebrates the 25th National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Today, commemorating the first day of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Ask invites people everywhere to honor loved ones affected by breast cancer by posting a tributes on our homepage. Our sp 1317 views read more
Searching for a Cure: Ask.com and Susan G. Komen for the Cure® Partner in the Fight to End Breast Cancer
Today we are excited to unveil our Ask.com Search for the Cure® campaign, a first-of-its-kind donation to Susan G. Komen for the Cure® – the world's largest and most progressive gras 1388 views read more
SES San Jose is here! August 10-14, 2009
It’s one of our favorite events each year, and Ask is proud to support SES San Jose as a premier sponsor. We’re also joining our industry colleagues on several panel discussions that 1540 views read more
What makes a search engine “semantic�
Recently I took part in a panel discussion at SemTech 2009 on the timely topic of “semanticity†of search engines. In the last few years, many "semantic†search engines have been la 1778 views read more
Thanks, iPhoners! Dictionary.com Makes Apple’s List of 30 Favorite Apps
The Apple® App Store just turned one year old and Dictionary.com is joining the party! We’re humbled and happy to make the list of Apple’s 30 Favorite Apps, compiled in a special 1614 views read more
Harvesting the Best Answers from Ask.com’s AnswerFarms!
Earlier this year we blogged about Ask.com’s AnswerFarm™ technology – our proprietary method of crawling and extracting question/answer pairs from hundreds of thousands of sources 1626 views read more