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Ask.com CTO Lisa Kavanaugh On Teaching An Old Answer Site Brand-New Tricks

"We are no longer a general purpose search engine," Kavanaugh tells us. Instead, Ask.com uses proprietary, semantic search technology to deliver answers from its own content banks, community, experts, and from all over the web. READ»

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Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz: We're Not a Search Company

Yahoo isn't a search company, according to CEO Carol Bartz. It isn't interested in fighting the behemoth that is Google. That war is far too costly to wage.READ»

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Ask.com: Stop Copying Us, Google, Bing, Yahoo

Is Ask.com giving up on the algorithmic search battle? Yes, but that's not the whole story. Company President Doug Leeds explains why human-assisted question-and-answer search is the future.READ»

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Facebook Tries to Cash-In on Q&A with "Questions"

A new Facebook tool, called Questions, is the latest in a series of Q&A experiments from major online companies. Can Facebook Questions compete?READ»

Ask.com to Relaunch as Expert Q&A Service

Remember Ask.com, that pre-Google site with the cute butler logo, Jeeves? Well, it's about to relaunch with a new ethos: answering questions, not keywords.READ»

NASCAR Team to Clean Up its Eco-Cred, But Formula 1 Still Wins That Race

NASCAR, if you think about it, represents all that's environmentally nasty about gasoline vehicles--fuel-guzzling cars muscling their way around a track at as high a speed as possible for entertainment. Sprint Cup team Hall of Fame ...READ»