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Scroogle’s Gone? Here’s Who Still Offers Private Searching
You’ve probably read the news already that Scroogle is gone forever. It launched back in 2003 and was popular among searchers who wanted...
Google Valentine’s Day Logo Features Tony Bennett’s Cold Cold Heart
Google has a pretty sophisticated logo, aka Google Doodle, today on their home page for Valentine’s Day. Also celebrating with special...
Ask.com Has The Most Long-Winded Searchers, Report Says
The longest search queries are happening on Ask.com, where users average almost five words per search. That’s according to research from...
2012 New Year’s Day Logos From The Search Industry
Welcome to 2012 and Happy New Years Day everyone! We wanted to share with you the logos and themes from the search engines for New Years! Google...
Searching For Answers On Ask.com In 2011
It’s been about a year since Ask went back to its roots as a full Q&A site and at the end of last year, we offered up its most popular...
Happy Thanksgiving Logos From Google, Yahoo, Bing & More
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Below is a collection of the 2011 Thanksgiving logos and themes from the search engine industry. Including...
Google’s Halloween Logo Made Up Of 6,000 Pounds Of Pumpkins
There is a special Google logo on Google for Halloween today, the logo is a video of Google’s Doodle team carving the Google logo out of...
Ask.com Returns To TV With Spot Emphasizing Q&A
Ask.com has a long history in TV advertising; some of it has been entertaining and some of it controversial. But the IAC-owned search engine was...
Ask.com Opens Up Its Human Q&A Community, Steps Further Away From Search
After more than a year in beta, Ask.com today opened the doors on its community-based question-and-answer product. It positions Ask as much less...
Ask.com Celebrates 15th Birthday
Ask.com the social search/Q&A engine is 15 years old. Founded in 1996 as Ask Jeeves by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen the company has...
Google’s 2011 Mother’s Day Logo & More Logos
Today is Mother’s Day in the United States and many many other countries and for the special day, Google and the other search engines have...
Google’s Interactive Earth Day Logo
Today on Google’s home page is a special interactive Google logo for Earth Day. Earth Day this year falls out on Good Friday and for the...
IAC Revises And Re-Ups Its Deal With Google
IAC, the parent of Ask.com, the Daily Beast and Citysearch, today announced it has amended and extended its distribution agreement with Google...
St. Patrick’s Day Logo Not On Google.com
This is the first time in years that Google does not have a St. Patrick’s Day logo on the Google.com home page. Google does have a special...
Ask Launches Local Conversations iPhone App
Ask.com noticed some interesting behavior happening on its Q&A iPhone application. People were trying to have “conversations” in...
With So Much Money Is A Facebook Search Engine Inevitable?
The news broke yesterday that Facebook was getting a whopping $500 million from Goldman Sachs and existing investor Digital Sky Technologies at...
New Year’s Eve & Day 2011 Logos From Google & Others
Happy New Year’s Eve everyone, except for you in the Australian region, where it is New Year’s Day! On behalf of the Search Engine...
Ask: Mobile Users Want “Fresh” Information in Real Time
An Ask.com survey, conducted by Harris Interactive (n=1,538 US mobile phone users), finds that user expectations on mobile devices (especially...
Barry Diller No Longer CEO Of IAC, Ask.com
Reuters reports Barry Diller, the CEO of IAC/InterActiveCorp, which bought Ask years back, is no longer the CEO of the company. Barry Diller...
Ask.com In 2010: Now Giving Answers
Less than a month ago, we reported that Ask.com was giving up on search technology (see: Ask.com To Focus On Q&A Search, End Web Crawling,...