ask.com algo?

Hi,

Does ask.com use another companies (yahoo, google?) search results or does it harvest its own and use its own algo?

Thanks

 

I think it is yahoo search results. If you get good rank in yahoo site should get listed in ask under paid advertisers.

 

Well I'm ranking great in Ask but badly in Yahoo?

 

I believe that Ask.com uses it own database and does not pull anything from any other database for it's organic results. As far as paid results, I did hear that they are one of (if not) the largest Google ads (Adsense) promoter. I thought they also had their own PPC program, but I may be wrong.

 

I don't know about its algo. But yes you can refer to this chart http://www.search-this.com/search-engine-decoder/

Thanks.

 

Nice site...

I think ask then uses its own organic results. Ask and MSN seem to have simliar algo's as they both like me site, but yahoo\google hate me

 

I think they have their own algorythms, though not as good as the others, but maybe they will be more lucky in the future.

 

Ask does have their own database and ranking system called "ExpertRank". They did not develop ExpertRank in-house, it was acquired when Ask purchased Teoma in 2001.

Source: about.ask.com/en/docs/about/webmasters.shtml

-- Nathan Enns

 

Hope this helps...

"ExpertRank is based on Jon Kleinberg’s HITS algorithm, combined with the IBM update to HITS called CLEVER. ExpertRank — like all Web index algorithms — looks at on-page factors to discern relevance but first selects pages from a pool of “trusted” sources. Ask’s trust is placed in categorization that is determined in part by “hubs” (pages that list expert pages about a topic) and “experts” (pages that deal mostly with specific topics and which are cited by other pages that deal with similar topics).

Ask’s algorithm relies heavily on citation analysis that goes far beyond classic PageRank. The drawback for the Ask algorithm is that it filters out a lot of otherwise worthwhile content and their database thus looks smaller than it actually is. I could speculate this may be in part why they have decided to develop the Edison algorithm. In my personal opinion, I think Edison will prove to be disastrous for Ask.

How you get indexed in Ask: You need links from pages already showing in Ask’s results for your topics. Don’t confuse “hubs” with directories.
Important on-page relevance signals: Title, keywords meta tag, use of bold/strong, italics/emphasis, repetition of keywords in text."
Cited from http://seo-theory.com/wordpress/2007/04/22/seo-algorithm-roundup-aol-ask-google-live-yahoo/

 

Why don't you just ask (pun intended)? But, seriously they have their own bot that scrapes the web.