Ask Debuts Revamped Local Search
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Hoping to break into the nascent local search market, Ask on Monday introduced AskCity, an application that brings together several different search categories into a single service.
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Never a dull moment in local these days as I learn of new sites almost daily. I spoke this morning with Ben Saren, CEO of Boston-based Citysquares, another &#8220;hyperlocal&#8221; site focused on building out neighborhood listings and community. Right now the site only covers the Boston area but Saren envisions expansion and scaling.  We discussed all [...]
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Blog: Company kicks off its Search Suggest feature, designed to save users time by offering search suggestions on which they can click.
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Microsoft's unveils improved Live Search but we've seen most of it before.
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Ask Jeeves (Quote, Chart) entered the desktop search competition with a beta version of its own service that scours users&#39; computers.
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As the major players in Web search duke it out, a growing number of startups are embracing a different way of retrieving and sorting search results.
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Blog: A first look at Searchles: a new web app that seeks to combine social networking with web search functionalities.
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Links to the week's topics from search engine forums across the web: TrueLocal Launches Canadian Local Search Engine - The Video Void: Where Are All The AdSense Video Ads? - Here Comes Social Media Optimization? - Google Apps for Your Domain, and more.
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LOS ANGELES  - Scrappy No. 4 search engine Ask.com takes on Yahoo and Google today in the hotly contested area of local search listings, with its new AskCity.com.
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Local search site launches nationally, adding user reviews to implicit recommendations based on transactions in the neighborhood.
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It's a busy day at Ask Jeeves with the announcement of several new services and enhancements, including the launch of a new personalized search tool and a major upgrade of the company's Teoma search engine.
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New search tools include both people and discussion finders.
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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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Portal tries out feature for its popular Yahoo Answers search engine.
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Human-powered search site morphs into search for mobile users.
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The quest for local information has increased during the past decades. This involves research in documents and publications in archives and libraries.
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Ask.com is set to give greater  prominence in Web search results to photos, video and related  searches, responding to growing consumer demand for more than  text links, the company said on Monday.