pageoneresults - 8:49 pm on Jun 11, 2007 (gmt 0)

My financial interest in Ask is all of 5 hours old and is minor. I have invested in Ask on the back of using it for a week and the new interface.

You made me go check out the stocks. Based on a 6 and 12 month summary, I'm going to wait a little while longer. They took a major hit in 2007 May and haven't really been able to recover. If I see that trend changing over the next week or two, I'm going to get a few shares myself.

Ask.com is "just another search engine" at this phase. The cosmetic change is nice, the features are great, but I think they missed the mark.

While the Gorg continues to grow exponentially, the others like Ask, MSN and Yahoo! are left with the scraps, the pieces that Google missed the first couple of times around. If you look at the trends over the past few years, the distance between 1st and 2nd is so great at this point, it would take an act of a higher power to upset that number one position.

So Ask is left to battle for 4th and 5th. Its going to be a slow process. I'm all for supporting the underdog. Ask need to fix what's under the hood first, and quickly. They can't wait 103 days!

At Google's current rate of acquisitions, they will have acquired 6.355 more companies in that 103 days. They will also have improved their algorithm. Where's that leave the others?