Ask, which is seeking to expand its less than 4 per cent share of the web search market in the United States, launched an invitation-only beta, or test, version of the new service this week. In a blog ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Ask.com, the Internet search engine owned by IAC/InterActive Corp, is seeking some human help answering web surfers' questions. The company has begun testing a new service ...

Ask.com hopes it’s found the answer to increasing its market share — and no, the plan doesn’t involve a butler named Jeeves. The fourth-place search engine has just announced a new site that focuses ...

Ask.com is cleaning up its act a bit with the latest (the 11th, I'm told) major update of the search engine, which launches on Monday. The biggest change is that Ask is parsing more data from various ...

Ask.com provides a question-and-answer feature that uses semantic search technology to interpret the questions and return relevant answers found on the Web Ask.com plans to upgrade its search engine ...

Search engine companies Ask.com and Hakia this week overhauled their respective search technologies, tapping into the semantic Web to provide search results that better reflect the intent behind the ...

Ask.fm, a Riga-based social Q&A platform where users receive anonymous questions and constitute their feed by answering them, was acquired by Ask.com on Thursday. With 180 million members in 150 ...