Search Engine Land
- June 26, 2008
Sorry, Ask.com — I Still Don’t Think You’re Focused On Core Search
Back in March, after Ask.com seemed to be
pulling away from
search to some people, I
wrote that
Ask "killed the search engine," was no longer an innovator in search and
couldn’t expect to compete against Google. Recently, I spoke with Ask.com
CEO Jim Safka, who hoped to change my mind. He failed to do that, in the
end.
Safka’s been reaching out to a number of the "digerati" who came out against
Ask, after the March news. Lisa Barone,
who wrote about giving up on Ask,
was contacted.
Danny Sullivan’s had a call and plans to write a piece from that. My turn
was about three weeks ago.
