Looks like they are serious about heading in the direction of FAST and Google. Think they will have a chance at reaching that level in the near future?
It's going to take some time for them to prove themselves and build up a large following. They have what many might consider, the best of two hot topics these days: Ask's pattern-matching technology and Teoma's authority-matching technology.
Most of the popular portals around the world these days are powered by either Google or FAST. They will have to build up a good model in order to convince those sites to switch over.
What about AOL?
They have the perfect opportunity to go after AOL RIGHT NOW. ODP is not looking so "fresh" these days due to their "methods" of listing sites and Inktomi has very poor results.
On the international side, pregunta.com is a good start for them to hit the Spanish-language market. They seriously need to target other languages if they want to succeed in the portal game.
