New version for Ask.com

No, the search engine Ask.com is not dead ! Despite some announcements and a quite bad communication some months ago, this historical main actor in web searches just launched a new design for their American market tool (the application for the French market hasn't been updated but it's not sure someone still handling it...).

The 3D approach, offering on the page a results list, images, videos etc. at the same time is abandoned and did'nt last for long. On the other hand, according to Ask.com, technologies like semantic researches should bee integrated to attempt to increase relevancy of results.

A "Q&A pairs" index has also been added, which provide the questions ands answers results found on the Web linked to the keywords chosen. All the other indexes are the common ones: "Web", "Images", and "News"... A "More" index give access to other tools from IAC, parent company of Ask.com : Maps, TV programs, videos, blogs, etc.

Well, nothing really revolutionnary, and you may think that this will not be enough to compete with the giant Google and his huge part of the traffic, but Ask.com shows at least that they are still alive and will certainly focus their attention on profit-making niche markets in the future...

Source de l'image : Ask.com

http://www.ask.com/?o=312

Source(s) :
Welcome To The New Ask.com! (Ask.com)
It's Here! The New Ask.com! (Ask.com)

All the web pages for ask.com...

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

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