The Future of Ask

Below are some traffic rankings and market share statistics for ask.com.

Will Ask be bought out, slowly lose it's users, or regain market share and make the search world a 'Big 4'?

What do you think? (Note: All images are linked to their original sources.)


Hitslink.com Marketshare.


Alexa traffic volume.


comScore Media Metrix from SEW.

 

Can you bring statistics for last 2 years too?

 

This would be interesting to know..

 

I'm not sure about older logs for comScore or hitslink, but here's alexa's data for the last 5 1/4 years or so (which seems to be as long as the keep it):

 

Yesterday I checked all my keywords with a tool that shows simultaneous search results on Google, MSN, Yahoo!, and Ask.

By far the worst results were on Ask. Best was MSN, followed by Google and then Yahoo!, with Ask a distant last. So I find myself not too enamored of Ask's performance to date. Is anyone else finding Ask to be doing a poor job ranking your sites?

 

Yeah...WHY did Jeeves leave? Who was he anyway...just some cartoon character?

 

I previously thought nobody was using ask, but from you report, em, they still have some clients.

 

@toxic diamonds: Yeah, he was a fictional character they implmented, so that you are asking Jeeves.

In my idea, he made them look bad.