pageoneresults - 6:41 pm on Jun 11, 2007 (gmt 0)

The interface progression of the new Ask is a world away from what you describe. It is a genuine progression; no other search engine has video, images, feeds. etc all on the SERPS page. It also has dynamic search suggestions as you type, a skinnable frontpage.

I don't believe that is what drives users to a particular search engine. Its the results. Google doesn't need to change its home page with the exception of getting rid of a few html errors. :)

These are all genuine progressions in search that users will benefit from and enjoy.

Is Ask a search engine or a portal?

I also like Ask's advertising strategy. In fact, between my last post and this one I bought Ask stock. I am that confident in it.

With their slide in marketshare, I would guess now is the best time to pick up some Ask stock just in case.

Also, their "shock campaign" advertising seems to be backfiring a bit these days.

And I am puzzled as to why you are so supportive of a company (Google) that has a near monopoly and has not created a user-benefiting interface upgrade like Ask just has in 5+ years of this near monopoly.

So supportive? I support the hand(s) that feed myself, my family and my clients. That just happens to be Google, Yahoo and MSN. Oh, a few Ask referrers here and there.

And it’s not like Google doesn’t have it’s fair share of indexing problems. www vs. non www took Google years to sort out!

Growing pains. At least the problems got sorted.

Do you work for Google perchance?

Nah, although sometimes it feels like it.

Do you work for Ask?

Apparently the algorithm is feeling nostalgic.

That is absolutely hilarious! :)