Ask.com AskEraser Looking Like a Hit
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Ok I’m not paid to be a company shill, I’m just an engineer/UI guy, but it’s hard not to be positive about working for such a cool company. The press coverage for AskEraser seems to be mostly positive. Here are some of my favourite blogs’ comments/reviews:
Henry Blodget, my favorite blogging genious says that “IACI’s Ask.com continues to have the best search engine in the business” but that AskEraser is irrelevant and that “features won’t win the search business. And neither does advertising.” Heh. In a subsequent post today about search engine marketshare he predicts bad things for Ask: “Ask is going to get squeezed out of the search market. Its only hope is to focus on a niche or sell itself to Google, Yahoo, or Microsoft.” Well shit.
paidcontent.org, one of the coolest blogs ever, as always only reports the facts (and don’t editorialize them like other blogs do, which is why they’re so awesome), but get them wrong, and so see me jump to the rescue in the comments and look they corrected it with a strike through. I should get paid for this.
Mashable, the blog that paid me $100 to troll them, likes Ask.com’s new feature, and are so happy about it they forgot to spell check: “However, this is a good move by Ask.com; if you can’t be better than Google as far as search is concernet [sic], find some area where you can actually show that you’re better than the competition and capitalize on that. It all adds up in the end.”
The whole thing is big news today and Blogrunner and Techmeme are doing a great job tracking the whole thing. Technorati’s new meme tracker…not so much. I don’t know how they track things, but at best it’s confusing and opaque, and at worst, well…heh.
