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Welcome to the ineedhits Search Engine Marketing blog, where we share the latest search engine and online marketing news, releases, industry trends and great DIY tips and advise.
After partially coming out of retirement last year, Ask have decided to fully reinstate Jeeves as their search brand in the UK. Visiting the URL uk.ask.com should take you to the new Jeeves character which has been completely redesigned from the old 2D character.
You can see a screenshot of the new ask homepage below:
Jeeves also gives an explanation of why he has returned:
I popped out three years ago…
Ask.com has announced a range of improvements to their search results by focusing on improvements to their semantic search technology. Semantic search aims to improve search results by leveraging data from other networks to uncover the true understanding of each search query.
Ask have announced a number of new technologies which should help them deliver the answer you’re looking for, no matter how your search query is phrased.…
Search News
As this year draws to a close Google, Yahoo!, and Ask.com have released their top search trends for 2008. In most cases, these trends represent the fastest rising search queries which have shown the largest growth from 2007.
Google’s Top Trends
The following list represents the fastest rising search terms in the U.S. for 2008. As you might have guessed the Election was a major influence on users…
It’s been a while since the new owners of Ask Jeeves decided to sack the iconic butler from their search engine. From the comments on our original post, many of you were upset with this decision and were sad to see him go.
Well, for those of you who want to be reunited with Jeeves, now is your chance! Simply visit askjeeves.com, you will be redirected to ask.com…
Ask.com has launched a news service called ‘Big News‘ that delivers newsworthy content ranked by what they call a ‘BigFactor’. Ranking news content is nothing new, but it does give the service a distinctive difference from the more traditional Yahoo and Google News, by displaying the ranking score for each article.
Like other news aggregators, BigNews pulls stories from websites, blogs, video and more across the web…
A class action lawsuit has been filed against Ask Jeeves (Ask.com) parent company IAC Search & Media Inc. over failing to prevent “click fraud” on advertisements purchased from the company.
Put simply, “click fraud” occurs where a person or program clicks on an advertisers sponsored listing in an attempt to defraud an advertiser who pays a CPC (cost-per-click) each time the listing is clicked on.
Details of the…
Google, Yahoo! and Ask.com have released their end of year guides to the hottest online searches in 2007. The guides detail the fastest rising (and falling) search queries conducted throughout the year.
Google
Google’s popular end of year roundup, the Google Zeitgeist, receives its own micro site on Google.com which can be seen here. Google break down their top searches into different categories, but provide an overall summary…
Ask.com have released some new advertisements promoting their Ask3D search engine, which some users have claimed is a direct attack at Google. The new “Instant Getification” Ads start with a tagline “can your search engine do this?”.
You can watch an example of one of the commercials below:
The ads, which contrast Ask.com search results with those of a typical search engine, have lead many to believe the…
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