Ask.com Retools With Focus on Local Coverage
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Ask.com is introducing AskCity, a service that integrates maps with information about local businesses, restaurants, listings and reviews.
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Site will alert users to roadwork and accidents in their local area.
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Ask.com's Senior User Experience Analyst Michael Ferguson continues his discussion of the company's rebranding, offering tips and suggestions for anyone considering updating or modifying a web site.
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By Brandy A. Lee Deseret Morning News  A national nonprofit organization has unveiled a Web site that allows residents access to up-to-date local public-safety news and information.  All of the information is state-specific with the help of Google.
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AskEraser puts you in control of your search data, giving Ask.com a leg up on rivals.
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Search site Ask revamps its results pages to set it apart from rivals such as Google and Microsoft.
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Customers can retrieve a variety of electronic missives by phone or via a Web site. By Clint Swett -- Bee Staff Writer. Get weekday updates of Sacramento Bee headlines and breaking news.
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TechWeb - AskEraser will provide Ask users with privacy controls that will prevent their searches from being retained on the company&#39;s servers.
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The "free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" goes online. Doing research becomes easier but community editing means the information may be less credible.
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Topix Delivering Local News Search to Ask Jeeves  Topix.net today announced that it has been selected by Ask Jeeves, Inc. to provide news to Ask Jeeves for its Local News channel. Through this partnership, Ask Jeeves becomes the first major search engine to feature Topix.net's news technology.  Topix.net provides visitors to Ask ...
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There is an interesting post on OnLamp.com that mentions the search for a good wiki system. Read the post to find out why the author thinks that the wiki world "needs the kind of vision that will make the product more accessible, more polished, less prone to abandonment or neglect...", and the several comments that follow.
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WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Dec. 8  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Citysearch, an operating business of IAC/InterActiveCorp , today announced the company will serve as the core local content provider powering Ask.com's new local search product, AskCity.
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Also: Science tattoos making the Web rounds. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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There&#8217;s something of a dance going on between the new AskCity, which got huge amounts of coverage since launch a week or so ago, and IAC&#8217;s stalwart local brand Citysearch. Here&#8217;s a press release out this morning, which points to the fact that Citysearch is supplying much of the content on Ask City. It&#8217;s a little [...]
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(InfoWorld) - AOL opened up for testing a new local search service, finally adding a component to its search engine that many competitors have had for years. Those interested in giving the new service a test-drive will find a Local tab in the search box of AOL's main portal page. When clicked, that tab takes the user to the local search interface on AOL Search. AOL Local, for now a beta service, lets users find business listings from a specific area, such as a street address, city, state, or ZIP code. The service will return a list of businesses, along with a map indicating where each one is located. Users can also obtain driving directions, AOL said Tuesday. Currently, AOL Local works with the Windows versions of Internet Explorer 6.0 and higher and Firefox 1.5 and higher. For Mac OS users, AOL Local "partially" supports the Safari and Firefox browsers, meaning that some functionality may be limited and not fully tested. More information about AOL Local can be found on the service's help page. Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Ask.com have local search services. In addition to maps, business listings, and driving directions, local search engines often provide real-time traffic data andÂ information about local eventsÂ such asÂ movie times, as well as customer reviews of restaurants, shops, and other commercial establishments. While lacking a local search engine, AOL has provided many of these features, albeit in different services,Â such asÂ its MapQuest mapping site, Yellow Pages business directory, and City Guide network of local entertainment guides. AOL Local has a "powered by MapQuest" tag in its logo, indicating the maps come from this sister AOL property. However, it's not clear whether AOL Local is tapping other related servicesÂ such asÂ Yellow Pages and City Guide. The service seems to be limited for now to the United States. AOL didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. Having a local search engine is considered a must for Internet search service providers, as the popularity of these sites increases among users and advertisers. Kelsey Group, a market researcher, forecasts that companies globally willÂ increase their spending on local search enginesÂ and online business listing directories an average of 22.3 percent per year through 2011. Advertisers spent $4.1 billion on these sites last year and are expected to spend $11.1 billion in 2011, according to Kelsey Group. Conversely, ad growth in print Yellow Pages phone directories will be almost flat through 2011, increasing an annual average of 0.9 percent, with $27.8 billion expected to be spent in 2011, according to Kelsey Group. AOL announced the beta launch of its local search engine at beta.aol.com.
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On Monday, Ask.com is introducing AskCity, a service that integrates maps with information about local businesses, restaurants, listings and reviews.
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InfoWorld - Almost three months after&#160;a major overhaul of Ask.com&#39;s local search engine, IAC/InterActiveCorp is again moving to improve its offerings in this popular search segment by acquiring Insider Pages, a city guide with hundreds of thousands of user reviews of local businesses.