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Ask3D brings a fresh look to search

Ask has breathed some new life into search with a major site overhaul. Dubbed Ask3D, the revamped site combines search suggestions, results and related structured data on a single page. "Search today puts so much onus on users to hunt and peck through millions of blue links," said Ask CEO...

Tags: Web Technology, Search, General

Blog posts 2007-06-04

Ask.com's Trojan Horse--AskCity

Ask.com isn’t suffering from an inferiority complex, despite being fourth in the search engine rankings. Company CEO Jim Lanzone told me that he expects to reach double digit growth for his search engine, which currently is less than 6 percent according to various measurement services. He pointed to the fact...

Tags: AskCity, Jim Lanzone, Search, Web Technology, Personal Technology, General

Blog posts 2006-12-03

Ask and Microsoft talk about challenging Google

Ask CEO Jim Lanzone and Microsoft search head Steve Berkowitz were asked about competing with Google during a session at the Web 2.0 Summit. Neither came up with a convincing plan for how they might knock Google off its game. Ask has about a 6 percent share and Microsoft is...

Tags: General, Web Technology, web2con

Blog posts 2006-11-08

AlwaysOn: In search of better search

Three of the search engine kings Microsoft was missing held court during an AlwaysOn Stanford Summit this afternoon, discussing the state of search technology. Bambi Francisco of Marketwatch led the conversation with from right below Usama Fayyad, Chief Data Officer at Yahoo; Jim Lanzone. CEO of Ask.com; Peter Norvig,...

Tags: Peter Norvig, Usama Fayyad

Blog posts 2006-07-28

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AskEraser takes on Google, Yahoo and Jason Bourne

So here we all are sharing all our latest news with everyone on MySpace and Facebook ("I just went to the loo!!!" "My baseball cap just fell off on the Golden Gate Bridge!!!") when along comes Ask.com and, appropriately, asks the question: "Hold on. Are our egos...

Tags: Google Inc., MLB, Search Engine, Ask.com, Yahoo! Inc., Server, AskEraser, Ask, Search, Investment, Finance, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2007-12-11

Ask.com wages Google search war, NOT AdWords battle

Ask.com goes 3D in a big effort to one-up Google's recently debuted Universal Search.Why then, does it not solely go the Ask.com ad sales route as well, instead of continuing to rely on arch rival Google for its revenues?Just weeks ago, in Ask vs. Google: Can $100 million buy IAC...

Tags: Search Advertising, Search, Google, AdWords

Blog posts 2007-06-05

Push Google off its search advertising throne? Not so FAST!

Another day, another company that claims to be the one that will dethrone $150 billion market cap, and “everyone’s favorite garage band,” Google from its search advertising kingdom.Who is the latest to put forth the would-be Google slayer, along with potential killer of perennial runner-up Yahoo and slow out of...

Tags: Search Advertising, Search, ROI, Google Ads, AdWords, Advertising

Blog posts 2007-04-30

Google, LookSmart power Ask.com advertising

What are the some of the advantages of attending a Silicon Valley conference, such as Kelsey “Drilling Down on Local,” and then staying on in San Francisco for a few days?A ferry ride to Sausalito and seaside seafood lunch, a Sonoma wine country tasting tour…and first-hand looks at special advertising...

Tags: advertisement, Ask.com, Google Inc., LookSmart Ltd.

Blog posts 2007-03-27

IAC, Dow Jones team for personal finance online community

Barry Diller, CEO, IAC/Interactive, is fond of saying flagship search engine Ask.com is the “glue” for IAC’s integrated conglomerate of Internet properties, even though Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone prefers to see himself as a head “chef.”(SEE Jim Lanzone’s vision for Ask.com: Exclusive Interview)Be it by “glue” or a “mixing of...

Tags: team, Ask.com, finance, personal finance, IAC, Dow Jones & Company Inc., Barry Diller

Blog posts 2007-03-11

IAC CEO Barry Diller on Ask.com

A few weeks ago I asked Jim Lanzone, CEO, Ask.com, for his thoughts on Barry Diller, CEO of corporate parent IAC, considering Ask.com to be the “glue” for IAC’s “integrated conglomerate” of Web properties. SEE “Jim Lanzone’s vision for Ask.com: ‘Real Deal’ Interview”Lanzone told me he prefers to see himself...

Tags: Business Models, Advertising, Search, Google, Google Software Applications, ROI, Metrics, Search Advertising, IAC, Barry Diller

Blog posts 2007-02-07

Google YouTube video search mash?

Google’s world-famous mission is to organize “the world’s information,” all of it. Its “news” last week that “YouTube video results will appear in the Google Video search index” was not unexpected: Google search results already include links to content thats hosted on YouTube. Starting today, YouTube video results...

Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Usability, Advertising, Search, Google, Google Software Applications, ROI, Metrics, Search Advertising, Google Inc., YouTube Inc., video

Blog posts 2007-01-28

Yahoo vs. Google: Should Yahoo surrender?

In “Is Google search vulnerable in 2007?” I underscore: Serious competition necessitates not only "breakthrough" concepts, but serious monetization capabilities and serious proprietary technology, on an in-house basis, not an out-sourced to competitors one. In “Google search kingdom: Benevolent or despotic?” I note the hopes of three companies—Ask.com, Wikiasaria and...

Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc., radio, monetization, advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Google&rsquo, s

Blog posts 2007-01-14

Jim Lanzone's vision for Ask.com: 'Real Deal' Interview

Barry Diller, CEO, IAC/Interactive, has taken to extolling the IAC search engine property Ask.com as the “connecting glue” for IAC’s “integrated conglomerate” of diverse Web properties and services.Jim Lanzone, CEO, Ask.com, however, prefers to see himself operating as a “chef” remixing content ingredients to create a better search experience for...

Tags: Business Models, Local, Usability, Advertising, Search, Google, Blogs, CEO Interviews, Internet Data, Brands, Marketing, The Real Deal, ROI, Metrics, Ask.com, AskX strategy

Blog posts 2007-01-10

IAC's AskCity hard to ask

The $31 billion local online search and classifieds market opportunity is not Google’s for the taking, I put forth yesterday in “Google: $31 billion local winner?” Barry Diller’s IAC/InterActiveCorp upped the local ante today with the launch of a new, locally-focused service within IAC’s Ask.com search engine. Fellow...

Tags: IAC, CitySearch, AskCity, Local

Blog posts 2006-12-04

Searching for human-like search

Search is the motherload of the Internet today, as has been proven by Google. But it is still clunky and you end up with 149,000,000 results for "ajax" delivered in .05 seconds. At the Web 2.0 Summit, hakia showed a beta of its "meaning-based" search engine. According to the company,...

Tags: Web 2.0, SEARCH, Barney Pell

Blog posts 2006-11-08

Where's Jeeves? Search for answers

Ask.com keeps it simple, clean and user friendlyCNET's Neha Tiwari converses with Ask.com Jim Lanzone about search engine expansion, the world's weirdest queries and what sets Ask.com apart from other search tools.

Tags: Ask.com

Videos 2006-06-24

Supernova: The Future of Search

Moderator: Chris Shipley Guidewire Group, David Sifry Technorati, Jim Lanzone (Ask.com), Leila Boujnane (Idee - image and video search), Kapenda Thomas (Jookster - a social search engine) This panel covered what's next for search, a perennial topic at conferences like Supernova - but that's because it's such an interesting challenge!...

Tags: Leila Boujnane

Blog posts 2006-06-22