Ask.com has long been associated with questions and answers, but it's doubling down on the strategy. This time around, will the company get it right? Tom Krazit writes about the ever-expanding world ...

The butler is dead, the name has been tweaked, but executives at Ask.com would like to remind the world that they are still very much in business. In fact, they're actually doing pretty well these ...

What happened to Ask.com’s search engine? It was put out to pasture Tuesday by the company that says it’s giving up on trying to compete with Google. Ask.com says its getting out of the search engine ...

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 ...

After more than a year in beta, Ask.com today opened the doors on its community-based question-and-answer product. It positions Ask as much less search-oriented, and much more Q&A based — not unlike ...

I really liked the new version of Ask.com that arrived back in June of 2007–in part because it was so clearly not Google or a shameless Google wannabee. That version sported a three-pane interface ...

For Ask.com, what is old is new again. Starting Tuesday, the search site that refuses to die is re-reinventing itself as a question-answering service. This time Ask.com is adding a Web 2.0 twist on ...

In purchasing Ask.fm, Ask.com has agreed to more thoroughly respond to and act on incidents of cyber-bullying. IAC/InterActiveCorp owns a number of the Web's top properties, including search site ...

We learned this week that more than 317 million computer viruses or other malicious programs were unleashed by hackers last year, according to the Internet security firm Symantec. That’s nearly a ...

First Jeeves got the old heave-ho; now Ask.com is ready to give user data the boot as well. In an apparent effort to one-up its much larger competitors in the field of user privacy, Ask.com unveiled ...

“We are no longer a general purpose search engine,” Kavanaugh tells us. Instead, Ask.com uses proprietary, semantic search technology to deliver answers from its own content banks, community, experts, ...

Ask Sponsored Listings, a division of Ask.com (itself a subsidiary to IAC) has acquired Sendori, a startup that introduced interesting advertising exchange technology about two years ago that enabled ...