Ask.com Trying To Join the Top 3 SEs.

We all know that they won't, so let it go. If they hijack homepages they would see better results....You don't go to a site that you don't need after seeing a commercial...

 

HOpe ask.com can be a second google : )

 

Good point.

 

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Well, with something like this....

 

Yes, I have seen the commercials.

Who know's, they're definately marketing right, maybe they will.

 

I also noticed that I got a ton of hits from the Ask bot on March 15th. Have to watch and see if they can make a move to try to catch up with Google.

 

Forget about Ask. They are pretty new to the whole SE business and the big G is over 10 years old, what are you trying to compare?

 

Ask is the only engine I don't have my main keyword phrase at #1.. barely even on the first page- therefore, I hate it lol

A press release I put out today outranks my own site. Even if they put on a good SES party and have nice commercials, if their algo doesn't rank my site very high, I want them as far down the search totem pole as possible

 

People here seem to be talking like Ask is a new search engine. AskJeeves have been around a long, long time - longer than Google. They've never really made a lasting impact and these ads are unlikely to change that.

 

Ask can only compete with MSN not Yahoo or Google in my opinion.

I supported ask.com, even tried to use their engine as my primary one, but I have been disappointed.

 

Advertising can only get you so far.

 

I highly doubt they do anything...but they might some money. That said I got about 10 uniques/ day from them for the past week.

If I sell anything as a result of them--cool.

 

Easy to remember name.

 

It will take them many more years.

 

ask.com seem to have been around for ages and have never got anywhere really in the search engine stakes.

I've seen the adverts on TV. I also see far more banner ads for ask.com than any other site.

I think they need to do something revolutionary if they're gona crack it. They can't just spurt the same stuff out as the current top 3.

 

I like ask much better than before. I see it getting to #2 in a few years, especially if they keep up their advertising.

 

Ask.com results are unbelievably useless. I can't find anything on there.

 

I concure, except that MSN is easy traffic for SEOers.

 

Well, ask.com needs some major improvements. My site is indexed, but the title is from about 4-6 months ago.

And only 2 of about 24,000 pages are indexed. That's just sad.

I've gotten about 40 hits from their bot already this month, so why does their index look like MSN from November 2005?

 

I hope Ask improves. For one of my older sites it produces more traffic than google where I am #1 for my targeted key phrase