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Thanks for Asking! Ask.com is a Webware 100 Award Winner Three Years Running

Today Ask.com was recognized as a 2009 Webware 100 award recipient in the “Search and Reference” category, which specifically gives a nod to our innovative search tools and our technology that fi

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Ask.com Searches Smarter

Ask.com’s very own Tomasz Imielinski, EVP of global search and answers, recently sat down with Jennifer Zaino over at SemanticWeb.com to chat about the newest technologies that search engines are u

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Navigating the Web Better on Ask

Back in December 2008, we started beta-testing our Domain Navigation product, and measurements showed that our searchers found it useful and enhanced their overall search experience. Why is this hel

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Ask.com Supports Autism Speaks

As you probably know by now, April is Autism Awareness Month. But you may not know that autism is diagnosed in one out of every 150 children in the U.S., and it affects boys at a rate four times mor

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Ask.com Asks Uers to Support Autism Speaks

As you probably know by now, April is Autism Awareness Month. But you may not know that autism is diagnosed in one out of every 150 children in the U.S., and it affects boys at a rate four times mor

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Thoughts on Some Recent New Search Features...

At the Search Engine Strategies conference in NYC last week on the Blended Search Panel, I spoke about one way that Ask categorizes user search sessions. This categorization model includes:  o Disc

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Ask.com: Packing our bags for SES-NY…

It’s been a busy few months at Ask.com. And we enjoy nothing more than getting out from behind our desks (and servers!) and getting in front of our pals in the search industry at large. That’s wh

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Interpreting Hitwise Statistics on Longer Queries

There was a great session at SMX West recently, entitled 'Latest Stats About The Search Engines'. One interesting statistic that panelist Bill Tancer from Hitwise mentioned was that the average query

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Ask Is Going “Canonical”!

More often than not, web sites produce pages with the same content, but with different URLs. Usually, this is simply unintentional. For example, the following URLs usually lead to the same page (try

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SMX West, and the Keynote Interview with John Battelle...

Last week, I was fortunate to be a panelist at SMX West in Santa Clara on Danny Sullivan’s panel called 'Ask the Search Engines' (thanks, Danny). During the conference, I took the opportunity to 

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