Ask.com with customized servers

[shockie]

with the new look of their serps, tv commercials, and now customized servers that cut power usage by 30%, ask is heading in the right direction in reasserting itself as one of the major search engines out there. hopefully ask.com's sponsored listings can continue to grow as a viable search engine marketing option.

"The box comes in at a much lower price because it only has the components that are required to support each application," said Mark Stockford, the senior vice president of operations at the Ask.com. This customization capability on its industry standard servers has cut server power usage by 30%, he said.

Dell launched a program earlier this year aimed at its largest customers -- the ones who buy at least 1,000 servers each quarter. Essentially, it's co-designing servers with these firms, said Andy Rhodes, who heads sales and marketing for Dell's Data Center Solutions, a new business unit.

source: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9044958

 

[Ultimatum]

Hello.
Do you know (just for approximately) how many web masters are using this Search engine?

 

[Peter]

How do you mean webmasters using ASK?

ASK like most search engines have a crawler you do not need to submit to ASK

 

[Kelli]

Ask.com can spend all the money in the world on advertising but if they don't have the best and by best I mean most relevant searches then they aren't going to get people to continue to use their search engine.

There are PR3 and PR4 domains with rather high quality content that have been around for years and at least one more than an entire decade that aren't even in the ask.com database, so really how great can their search engine really be? There is no excuse for that.

Google is #1 for a reason. Ask.com can keep spending all they want on shiny little this or that but in the end, they need to learn one valuable lesson and that is to go back to the basics.

 

[weblord]

ask.com has Google PageRank 0
www.ask.com has Google PageRank 8

i wonder why?
forgot to optimize the one without www ?
i might be wrong but they started the search posted like a question

 

[shockie]

then their pr is 8. all they have to do is 301 the ask.com to www.ask.com, lol.

 

[tritrain]

then their pr is 8. all they have to do is 301 the ask.com to www.ask.com, lol.

Wow! It looks like they took your advice and did a 301.