Ask Specialises Blog Search

Ask has about 6% in US market share in terms of search volume and is currently the 4th largest search engine to serve its own search results, behind the 3 giants Google, Yahoo! and MSN. Ask, formerly known as Ask Jeeves, was initially founded in 1996 in Berkeley, California and was the first commercial question-answering [...]

Ask Celebrates July 4th

Ask replaces its wallpaper on its home page to celebrate the Independence Day of America. Small logos about the 4th of July can be found on both Yahoo! and MSN. Google, however, has made no change to its home page.

Google Search Market Share Growth

Google jumped from April’s 43.1% to May’s 44.1% in US search market share which is Google’s 10th consecutive month in market share gain according to ComScore. Yahoo remained in the second spot with 27.9%, followed by 12.9% of MSN (Bing).

How Search Engines Work

People use search engines to find the information that they want, but have you ever thought of how search engines actually work? Today, the big search engines such as Google, Yahoo! and MSN find and index website pages using programs called spiders or crawlers. Search engine spiders automatically browse the web with some pre-programmed methods. [...]

Market Share of Search Engines 2006

According to ComScore.com, a market research provider, the share of Internet searches within 1.5 million English speakers worldwide in March 2006 are shown below (in percentage): Google: 42.7% Yahoo!: 28.0% MSN: 13.2% AOL: 7.6% Ask.com: 5.9% Others: 2.6% Google searches include searches generated at any Google owned website (Google.com, Google Image Search, etc). Yahoo! searches [...]

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