drshields - 4:17 pm on Feb 27, 2006 (gmt 0)

I think it's a google competitor. Or at least a contender for a much larger share of the market.

I was just reading an article that featured the CEO of InterActiveCorp, Barry Diller, regarding his plans for Ask.com. He thinks the Ask.com technology is superior to googles, and demonstrated by asking the Money Magazine editor to type in "Weather in Minneapolis (or any other city) in google, you basically get some generic reponses. In Ask.com, you get a specific response (the weather + forecast).

Essentially he is talking about Smart-Answer technology, getting an answer to something directly rather than a list of page results.