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Harvesting the Best Answers from Ask.com’s AnswerFarms!
Posted 2 weeks, 2 days ago on The Ask.com Blog
Earlier this year we blogged about Ask.com’s AnswerFarm™ technology – our proprietary method of crawling and extracting question/answer pa...

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Thanks for Asking! Ask.com is a Webware 100 Award Winner Three Years Running
Posted on May 19th, 2009 on The Ask.com Blog
Today Ask.com was recognized as a 2009 Webware 100 award recipient in the “Search and Reference” category, which specifically gives a no...

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Ask.com Searches Smarter
Posted on May 19th, 2009 on The Ask.com Blog
Ask.com’s very own Tomasz Imielinski, EVP of global search and answers, recently sat down with Jennifer Zaino over at SemanticWeb.com to ch...

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Navigating the Web Better on Ask
Posted on April 27th, 2009 on The Ask.com Blog
Back in December 2008, we started beta-testing our Domain Navigation product, and measurements showed that our searchers found it useful and en...

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Ask.com Supports Autism Speaks
Posted on April 10th, 2009 on The Ask.com Blog
As you probably know by now, April is Autism Awareness Month. But you may not know that autism is diagnosed in one out of every 150 children ...

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Ask.com Asks Uers to Support Autism Speaks
Posted on April 10th, 2009 on The Ask.com Blog
As you probably know by now, April is Autism Awareness Month. But you may not know that autism is diagnosed in one out of every 150 children ...

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Thoughts on Some Recent New Search Features…
Posted on April 2nd, 2009 on The Ask.com Blog
At the Search Engine Strategies conference in NYC last week on the Blended Search Panel, I spoke about one way that Ask categorizes user search se...

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Ask.com: Packing our bags for SES-NY…
Posted on March 16th, 2009 on The Ask.com Blog
It’s been a busy few months at Ask.com. And we enjoy nothing more than getting out from behind our desks (and servers!) and getting in front of...

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Interpreting Hitwise Statistics on Longer Queries
Posted on March 5th, 2009 on The Ask.com Blog
There was a great session at SMX West recently, entitled 'Latest Stats About The Search Engines'. One interesting statistic that panelist Bi...

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Ask Is Going “Canonical”!
Posted on February 23rd, 2009 on The Ask.com Blog
More often than not, web sites produce pages with the same content, but with different URLs. Usually, this is simply unintentional. For example, th...

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