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The Next Frontier in Search: Questions & Answers
by Ask.com Blog
14 Nov 2009 at 5:03am
A few months ago at SemTech 2009 we announced that our questions and answers database ?launched almost a year ago ? had grown to more than 300 million high-quality Q&A pairs. ?High-quality? means that we use our semantic and extraction…
Ask Is ‘Dancing on Air’: ?Who Wants a Deal? We Do, We Do!?
by Ask.com Blog
20 Oct 2009 at 7:07pm
We know the economy has been down, and that?s getting folks a little ?down? about finding savings in these tough times. Well, with Ask Deals, we?re convinced you?ll soon be celebrating, and getting ?down? in a different way? What do…
Get Smarter on the Go with Dictionary.com?s Free Dictionary & Thesaurus Appli…
by Ask.com Blog
13 Oct 2009 at 4:41pm
It?s been six months since we launched our iPhone app and three million+ downloads later, we?re excited to take the next major step towards offering our unique experience to even more Smartphone users. With our new application for BlackBerry® we…
Ask Deals: Your One-Click, One-Stop Shop for Savings is Here!
by Ask.com Blog
6 Oct 2009 at 12:30pm
Consider this: a tough economy with new, record job losses. Families gathered around kitchen tables with a pencil and calculator trying to make ends meet ? every week. The fact that ?coupons? was the sixth most searched for term on…
Ask.com Celebrates the 25th National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
by Ask.com Blog
1 Oct 2009 at 5:58pm
Today, commemorating the first day of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Ask invites people everywhere to honor loved ones affected by breast cancer by posting a tributes on our homepage. Our special, one-day homepage memorial is part of the Ask.com…
Searching for a Cure: Ask.com and Susan G. Komen for the Cure® Partner in the…
by Ask.com Blog
14 Sep 2009 at 3:33pm
Today we are excited to unveil our Ask.com Search for the Cure® campaign, a first-of-its-kind donation to Susan G. Komen for the Cure® ? the world’s largest and most progressive grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists fighting to…
SES San Jose is here! August 10-14, 2009
by Ask.com Blog
5 Aug 2009 at 7:08pm
It?s one of our favorite events each year, and Ask is proud to support SES San Jose as a premier sponsor. We?re also joining our industry colleagues on several panel discussions that will explore the industry?s most pressing topics, and…
What makes a search engine ?semantic??
by Ask.com Blog
15 Jul 2009 at 5:36pm
Recently I took part in a panel discussion at SemTech 2009 on the timely topic of ?semanticity? of search engines. In the last few years, many “semantic? search engines have been launched, and the term ?semantic? has become open to…
Thanks, iPhoners! Dictionary.com Makes Apple?s List of 30 Favorite Apps
by Ask.com Blog
14 Jul 2009 at 12:30pm
The Apple® App Store just turned one year old and Dictionary.com is joining the party! We?re humbled and happy to make the list of Apple?s 30 Favorite Apps, compiled in a special iTunes section to celebrate their first birthday milestone….
Harvesting the Best Answers from Ask.com?s AnswerFarms!
by Ask.com Blog
17 Jun 2009 at 2:00pm
Earlier this year we blogged about Ask.com?s AnswerFarm? technology ? our proprietary method of crawling and extracting question/answer pairs from hundreds of thousands of sources, including user generated content, FAQ pages, news/blog articles, and structured/semi-structured data. Our Q&A database has…
