Ask.com search launches new interface, search algorithms

[mandy]

Take that, Google. On Tuesday, Ask.com unveiled a revamped version of its online search engine, the web’s fourth most popular behind Google, Yahoo!, and MSN/Live.com.

Dubbed Ask3D, the new Ask.com offers a fresh interface and an underlying search technology designed to give users quicker access to the data they’re looking for...

Using a new ranking algorithm, which the company likes to call ExpertRank, Ask.com now sorts its core search results according to the makeup of particular "expert communities" it identifies across the Web...

full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/06/...ch_revamp/

[jezebel]

The traffic I receive from Ask is minimal.