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. “High-quality” m

Category :Other Search Engines | 594 views | read more | 2009-11-13 23:03:00

Ask Is 'Dancing on Air': “Who Wants a Deal? We Do, We Do!” 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’ll soon be celebrating, an

Category :Other Search Engines | 668 views | read more | 2009-10-20 14:07:00

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 Smartphone

Category :Other Search Engines | 729 views | read more | 2009-10-13 11:41:00

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 ‘coupons’

Category :Other Search Engines | 667 views | read more | 2009-10-06 07:30:00

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

Category :Other Search Engines | 770 views | read more | 2009-10-01 12:58:00

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 grassroots ne

Category :Other Search Engines | 831 views | read more | 2009-09-14 10:33:00

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 will explor

Category :Other Search Engines | 1027 views | read more | 2009-08-05 14:08:00

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 launched, and

Category :Other Search Engines | 1220 views | read more | 2009-07-15 12:36:00

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 iTunes sectio

Category :Other Search Engines | 1153 views | read more | 2009-07-14 07:30:00

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, including us

Category :Other Search Engines | 1201 views | read more | 2009-06-17 09:00:00