Ask.com Search Engine - Better Web Search
Ask.com Search Engine - Better Web Search
Ask.com
Ask.com
555 12th Street, Suite 500
Oakland, CA 94607
tel: (510) 985-7400
fax: (510) 985-7412
email: information@ask.com
Ask.com gives you the best answers online to make searching quick and easy.
Ask.com provides consumers and advertisers with information retrieval products across a diverse portfolio of Web sites, portals and desktop search applications. Learn more about Ask.com
Company Overview
Ask.com is a leading search engine on the Web. Millions of people turn to Ask.com to get what they are looking for online everyday.
Founded as Ask Jeeves in 1996 and renamed Ask.com in February 2005, Ask.com is recognized for innovation in search technology and search interface design.
Ask.com sites include Ask.com U.S. (www.Ask.com), Ask.com Deutschland, Ask.com Espana, Ask.com France, Ask.com Italia, Ask.com Japan, Ask.com Nederland and Ask.com UK. Ask.com brands also include Ask.com Mobile, Ask for Kids (www.askforkids.com) and Bloglines (www.bloglines.com.).
A wholly owned business of IAC (Nasdaq: IACI), Ask.com is headquartered in Oakland, California with offices throughout the United States, as well as in Europe and Asia.
Ask.com is part of the IAC family of businesses, which includes several dozen brands in addition to Ask.com, such as Chemistry.com, Citysearch, CollegeHumor, Dictionary.com, Evite, GarageGames, Gifts.com, Match.com, Pronto, ServiceMagic, Shoebuy, The Daily Beast, VeryShortList, and Vimeo, as well as two advertising services, IAC Advertising Solutions and Ask Sponsored Listings. For a list of all of IAC's businesses, please visit www.iac.com.
Ask Search Technology
Our ExpertRank algorithm provides relevant search results by identifying the most authoritative sites on the Web. With Ask search technology, it's not just about who's biggest: it's about who's best. Our ExpertRank algorithm goes beyond mere link popularity (which ranks pages based on the sheer volume of links pointing to a particular page) to determine popularity among pages considered to be experts on the topic of your search. This is known as subject-specific popularity. Identifying topics (also known as "clusters"), the experts on those topics, and the popularity of millions of pages amongst those experts -- at the exact moment your search query is conducted -- requires many additional calculations that other search engines do not perform. The result is world-class relevance that often offers a unique editorial flavor compared to other search engines.
Ask continues to develop innovative search technologies & features.
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