Silicon Insider: How Ask.com Could Overtake Google
ABC News
... Ask off as yet one more failure (actually a double failure, considering its first incarnation as AskJeeves) in the search engine wars, suddenly the company makes a move of astonishing brilliance: this week it announced a new service cal...
Ask.com Redesign Seeks to Give Answers, Not Links
PC Magazine
The site still includes the AskEraser feature that removes a user's search history from the company's servers, and the ability to skin the home page with images of your choice, including your own uploaded images. You can try out the new sit...
Yahoo to purge user data after 90 days
San Francisco Gate
Called AskEraser, the service is opt-in, meaning that users must choose to participate, but it hasn't helped the search engine's market share, which remains in the single digits. Under the new policy, Yahoo will erase from its records the l...
AskEraser Already Under Fire
WebProNews
Privacy watchdog groups have filed a complaint with the FTC about AskEraser, claiming that the six-week-old service doesn’t live up to its promises of erasing all user search data even when enabled. Funny, six months ago the then-unlaunched...
Ask.com hits back against AskEraser critics, with a little help from a ...
Computerworld
Matt says: Now lemme get this straight: If a user of ask.com is concerned about their privacy, they are supposed to rely... Computerworld - Search engine vendor Ask.com has come out swinging against several privacy advocacy groups over a co...
PrivacyFinder.org: Search, but with Privacy
Electronic Frontier Foundations
Ask.com went further with their AskEraser feature, which allows users to have their logs deleted and to opt-out of being tracked (Ask.com could have done better by finding a way for opt-out to be available without a cookie). Despite these ....
Whoops! Ask.com complaint to FTC is an EPIC mistake
CNET News
- Order Ask.com to withdraw AskEraser from the marketplace. - Order Ask.com to cease engaging in and unfair deceptive trade practices. - Require Ask.com, as a condition of offering AskEraser in the future to: a) Cease using the opt-out cook...
Ask.com Search Engine - A Brief History
WebProNews
The site explains it by saying, "When AskEraser is enabled, your search activity will ordinarily be deleted from the Ask.com search engine servers within a number of hours."[8] The concept is sound, but many bloggers[9] are not impressed.[1...
Obit: A West Coast Digerati Deadpools Ask.com
Searchengineland.com
AskEraser. And Bloglines. (Hopefully, Bloglines will go on.) So many great things — I’m sad and sorry that Ask isn’t staying in the game. Finally, ironically, where Barry Diller’s business motives are getting most of the blame, Diller himse...