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- It's Here! The New Ask.com!Yesterday
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After months of hard work, late nights and truckloads of energy drinks, we launched the new Ask.com today and we're really excited about it. This launch continues our leadership in search innovation by delivering on our users' core needs of relevance, streamlined user experience, and fast page loads.
Our goal is to deliver the best answer to you, the first time, every time. We know that is a difficult goal and no search engine can always deliver with that precision 100% of the time, but we think we're getting closer and closer to the 'bullseye'. We also believe you will agree once you've tried out our new version.
Presenting direct answers to your searches, front and center, has always been at the heart of the Ask.com experience, and we push further down that path today with the introduction of three new answer technologies: DADS, DAFS, and AnswerFarm. These technologies take both structured and unstructured data, and - instead of delivering a title and description for each document - they deliver answers. Here’s an example.
Let's say you just got a new pet snake and you were wondering how often it will shed its skin. Here is how other search engines would present a result to your s
- Ask.com Celebrates Ask Kids RelaunchAugust 28
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We’ve been bouncing around the office all day with these new Ask Kids Hippity Hops. We celebrated the launch of the new Ask Kids in the best way we knew how: by acting like kids ourselves. What do you think of our new toys?
Ask Kids is homegrown, built from the ground-up, with our own search technology. We basically started from scratch and added search results and websites that pass our very strict test of what’s OK and what’s not OK. We had our editors contribute great kid's sites and used that as a basis to teach our search algorithms what to look for. The result is what we believe to be the most comprehensive, kid-friendly search available today.
At first glance, Ask Kids has a whole new look, with a completely customizable home page.
- Ask TV – a great search engine strategy unveiled at SES-San Jose!August 22
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Well, folks, it’s a wrap for SES San Jose this year. If you weren’t able to catch up with us this year at the event, there’s always next time!
Ask.com was on a few exciting panels this year, and it was great to catch up with all of our partners and other friends (hi Lisa!) and learn what new and cool innovations they are working on.
I had a spot on the Semantic Search panel Monday morning with Yahoo!, hakia, Powerset and Boo Rah and there was a lot of buzz in the air about what the future of Semantic Search will be, and how consumers will benefit from a semantic search experience on the web.
I spoke about Ask.com’s newest application of semantic search technology, searchable TV listings (which is still a work in progress, by the way). In case you missed it, I’d thought I’d take some time to fill you in.
Navigating TV listings in search of things like Olympic coverage can be a frustrating task. Not any more. With Ask.com it is now a real part of search. Straight from the Ask searchbox.
Our Ask TV listings uses our patent-pending technology DADS (Direct Answers from Databases) to answer queries and questions from structured data feeds and databases. DADS provides highly accurate answers to queries which are relevant to a given topic. Instead of using traditional keyword search algorithms, our technology can deliver much deeper, more precise search results based on understanding of a query meaning rather than syntact
- Ask.com Ranks George Clooney as Users Favorite BatmanJuly 15
- Unveiling the Most Popular Destination Wedding LocationsJuly 8
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While June is historically known as the most popular month for weddings, the entire three month span of June, July and August is commonly referred to as “wedding season.” 178 million adults are online, many of them brides-to-be wanting to step outside the traditional nuptials mold, and are searching for the most beautiful destination wedding venues.
A destination wedding can be exciting, adventurous and the ideal choice for many modern brides and whether it’s somewhere tropical, tourist-y or totally off the beaten path, destination weddings are sure to not disappoint.
So where are these bride hopefuls looking to hold their destination dream day? Digging into the Ask.com search banks, we lifted the veil to uncover the top 10:
Ask.com’s Top 10 Most Searched Destination Wedding Locations:
1. Costa Rica
2. Maui, Hawaii
3. Belize
4. Aruba
5. Virgin Islands
6. Nassau, Bahamas
7. Punta Cana
8. Cabo San Lucas
9. Tuscany
10. Florida Keys