Ask.Com's New Look Scores Big Points Against Search Rivals

By WALTER S. MOSSBERG

live, in-person on CNBC's Power Lunch, stating that he now prefers ask.com over google.

http://ptech.wsj.com/ptech.html

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They might become a real threat to the big three. Might we start talking about the big 4? The results are pretty good from what I have seen...even if they don't have me as #1.

I just did a search for phoenix real estate, and got greatlasvegashomes on the second page, not quite there yet.

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Never have looked past the top 5-10...then again does anyone if the top 5 are relavant to what you want?

Results from Louisville look pretty good. Some junk, but mostly relevant for main RE kw phrases. I am currently #3 for main words.

They are quickly moving up my Urchin reports (now #3--ahead of MSN) in terms of Search engine referrals.

Their TV ads seem to be building traffic. I will be interested to see how they do...

Eric

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Eric Blackwell
Technologist, SEO Specialist and Consultant

Louisville Real Estate

Southern Indiana Search Engine Marketing Blog

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The page they have indexed for us is from last year, so I dont see it getting any good placement for awhile. Not that I care, I dont know anyone that uses ask.com, and I have never heard anyone say "when I get home i'll 'ask' it and see."

But none the less, they are making headway.

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I know that Ask.com popularity has increased, what I'm not sure though is it's relevance of the resaults as it doesn't seem to update them often. It still displays a mortgage site that I have de-activated almost a year ago!

Is ask.com not google results?

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I couldnt say for sure, but they come up with different results so I would assume that no they dont. I do know they are affiliated with thier link program in some way, but cant remember exactly what. Doesnt really do a lot of good now does it...

Again, this is an educated guess.

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ask.com is powered by the teoma search technologoy if I remember correctly

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