Frequent
msg:3016747 | 3:13 am on Jul 21, 2006 (gmt 0) |
I have one site that's been getting a lot of traffic from Ask over the past few days. The odd thing is that the section of the site getting the traffic is a basic Amazon data feed store so it's pretty dead as far as main stream search engine referrals go. Freq---
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eeek
msg:3024955 | 10:00 pm on Jul 27, 2006 (gmt 0) |
| Ask has some very positive things going for it... |
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Really? I haven't seen anything positive about Ask. In fact I don't know where I'd go to find a worse search engine. Jeeves must have taken the database with him when he bailed.
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vite_rts
msg:3025038 | 10:47 pm on Jul 27, 2006 (gmt 0) |
In case any one from ask is reading this thread, I really think they should start accepting URL submissions like the 3 decent search engines out there,, They spent more money advertising that search engine on UK TV than i've seen just about any internet company spend ,, all for what!
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eeek
msg:3026324 | 7:12 pm on Jul 28, 2006 (gmt 0) |
All for what? As a prelude to bankruptcy is my guess.
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BillyS
msg:3026590 | 10:19 pm on Jul 28, 2006 (gmt 0) |
>>I haven't seen anything positive about Ask. Let me guess, poor rankings for you = poor search engine. I haven't seen any published data on relevence, but a couple of months ago I conducted a test (which consisted of a series of about 10 questions from a grade school homework assignment) Ask did the best job of interpreting the search query and returning the appropriate results. And for the record, I probably get less traffic from Ask then I should. But that doesn't make me sour on their search engine.
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vite_rts
msg:3026724 | 12:31 am on Jul 29, 2006 (gmt 0) |
Erm, thats not it, for me anyway, i've actually had 3 websites showing on pages 2 & 3 of their SERPS,, but the thing is,,,, I know a 1 year old website in one off my categories that has an Alexa rank better than ASK.co.uk I know alexa rankings are not definitive, but within the top 100,000, they're quite good,,,,,
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RichTC
msg:3027304 | 5:25 pm on Jul 29, 2006 (gmt 0) |
im seeing improvements in ASK - could be a dark horse yet but it has little reach thats the only problem i think As for spidering it has purges on some of the sites we work on but i recently noticed one site getting a real pounding by the bot, i mean very heavy spidering, normally where ive seen this in the past the site in question has improved in the ask search results - we will see this time. In conclusion, i notice ask is increasing its bot activity over all so perhaps it is about to deliver something. Who knows?
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ddogg
msg:3030469 | 6:27 pm on Aug 1, 2006 (gmt 0) |
I think ask is the worst search engine personally. They have some nice commercials though. They need a much fresher index to start..
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BillyS
msg:3038083 | 2:53 am on Aug 8, 2006 (gmt 0) |
>>They need a much fresher index to start.. When I started this thread I mentioned heavy spidering by Ask. Based on recent queries, Ask is now showing fairly fresh content for me. In fact, I've got more pages in Ask than Google right now.
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extremegolfer
msg:3044930 | 7:56 pm on Aug 13, 2006 (gmt 0) |
Ask needs to grows its database and update itself a lot sooner. Although I shouldn't complain as my site is on the first page with my keywords.
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BillyS
msg:3062079 | 1:10 pm on Aug 27, 2006 (gmt 0) |
There is no doubt that Ask is getting fresher with their index. If they keep this up, we could have four SEs in a real race.
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Bewenched
msg:3062727 | 5:31 am on Aug 28, 2006 (gmt 0) |
Our site has been getting some spidering from ask as well recently, it would certainly be nice to be able to submit a list of pages instead of the bot having to wander around the site.
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