Category: The search engine industry

Ask.com and Ask Jeeves launch database of 300 million answers and questions

Ask and Ask Jeeves goes back to basics and launches an enlarged question and answer database that allows for natural language search queries.

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Posted on Sunday 21 June 2009
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Social networking for Internet marketers

PickySite is a brand new social networking site for webmasters, internet marketers, web designers, web developers, and SEO experts. Along with PickySite’s editors, they write group and individual blogs and communicate with other members sharing the same goals.
How it works
On PickySite you can start your own personal group, or corporate blog and share information, links, [...]

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Posted on Thursday 18 June 2009
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Ask puts results in frames again

Ask.com tries to sneak in an Ask toolbar by adding a topframe to search engine results — again. That is bad idea.

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Posted on Monday 18 May 2009
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Jeeves is back!

Jeeves the butler reappeares at the UK version of Ask.com.

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Posted on Monday 20 April 2009
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What the Pirate Bay verdict means for search

The Pirate Bay lost in Swedish courts. Pandia argues that even if BitTorrent is used for the distribution of copyright protected material, the idea of punishing the search engine may undermine the very foundation of web fuctionality.

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Posted on Sunday 19 April 2009
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Schibsted to close down Sesam search site

The Norwegian media company Schibsted has decided to close down its Sesam search engine.

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Posted on Tuesday 31 March 2009
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New tech news aggregator: TechFuga

TechFuga is a news aggregator for technology news.

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Posted on Wednesday 11 March 2009
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Microsoft learns from Ask.com. Ask.com doesn’t.

Microsoft may be on the right track with the next incarnation of Live Search, for the time being called the Kumo search engine. Kumo does, for instance, copy some of Ask.com’s best features, features Ask has — alas — abandoned.

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Posted on Monday 9 March 2009
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