Tuesday, June 05, 2007
New clean design for Ask.com
As Google continues to clutter its homepage and results pages there's an opportunity for their rivals to claw back ground by offering users clean design. Ask's new homepage offers a modern straightforward alternative.
Apparently, the systems delivering the results have also been updated. I can't judge on any improvement as the last time I used Ask Jeeves was probably the first day I used the internet but trying a few searches that I regularly use in Google this afternoon I was impressed with the results.
Lifehacker doesn't think much of it, but I still think Google is beatable and I'll be looking out for in-depth studies of the Ask system in the coming weeks. ¶ Permanent link
As Google continues to clutter its homepage and results pages there's an opportunity for their rivals to claw back ground by offering users clean design. Ask's new homepage offers a modern straightforward alternative.
Apparently, the systems delivering the results have also been updated. I can't judge on any improvement as the last time I used Ask Jeeves was probably the first day I used the internet but trying a few searches that I regularly use in Google this afternoon I was impressed with the results.
Lifehacker doesn't think much of it, but I still think Google is beatable and I'll be looking out for in-depth studies of the Ask system in the coming weeks. ¶ Permanent link
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