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September 28, 2006

Ask.com Upgrades Weather Results & Adds Earthquake Data

Gary Price reports that Ask.com has launched an enhanced version of the weather results and has added earthquake data to Smart Answers. For an example of the enhanced weather results, do a search on weather in 10010 and then click on the top link and you will get a lot more detail, check it out. Also, if you want earthquake information, just search on earthquakes and you will get the most recent earthquake activity, of course you can also search by location.

Posted by Barry Schwartz at 11:57 AM | Permalink

May 25, 2006

Ask.com Has Sweet Europe Maps With Aerials

Search Engine Journal reports that Ask.com has some pretty impressive Europe maps, with aerial imagery. Loren Baker links to three examples including Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris, France, Houses of Parliament, London and even some nice coverage of The Canals of Amsterdam.

Posted by Barry Schwartz at 8:53 AM | Permalink

May 2, 2006

Ask.com Launches Physical / Topicgraphical Maps Views

Ask.com's Gary Price posts about Ask.com rolling out a new topographical views on Ask Maps. The feature is called "physical" and it shows illustrates the physical features of an area, such as mountains and bodies of water. This is different from satellite imagery, where satellite imagery are real pictures of the land, physical views are illustrations only. You can check out New York's physical map by clicking here. This feature currently does not work in Safari for Mac and it is only available for level 7 zoom or higher.

Posted by Barry Schwartz at 8:17 AM | Permalink

April 18, 2006

TechCrunch Rates Yahoo Maps The Best Mapping Service

TechCrunch has an outstanding review of mapping services offered by Yahoo, Google, MapQuest, Ask.com and MSN. The review takes you through scoring on views, navigation, mapping routes, functional actions and services and pricing. Overall, Yahoo maps wins over the other mapping services.

Yahoo Maps was by far the best application tested. Its fast Flash interface, multipoint directions, live traffic information, and easy send-to-mobile feature make it the hands down winner. It also features the most robust API options.

Read the full review at TechCrunch. Oh, I have my own little and un-comprehensive review on mapping services based on driving to Toronto next week.

Posted by Barry Schwartz at 8:28 AM | Permalink

April 7, 2006

SDForum To Host GeoSearch & Mapping Session With Google, Yahoo, MSN, & Ask.com

Search SIG announces that Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask.com will be on a panel named MapOFF! to take place at Yahoo headquarters on April 11th. The panel includes Jeremy Kreitler of Yahoo, Thai Tran of Google Maps, Alex Daley of Microsoft Virtual Earth and Andy Yang of Ask.com, moderated by Brady Forrest of Microsoft. More information on the event here.

Posted by Barry Schwartz at 8:54 AM | Permalink

February 27, 2006

Ask Upgrades and Rebrands Flagship Search Engine

Ask has finally taken the long-expected step of retiring its mascot, Jeeves, and rebranding its search engine. But today's rebranding goes far beyond a few cosmetic changes, introducing upgraded core search and a bevy of cool new tools that are customizable and extendible. Bottom line: it's a slick, impressive upgrade. I've got more details in today's SearchDay article, Ask Looses Jeeves, Gains New Features.

Posted by Chris Sherman at 12:01 AM | Permalink

February 26, 2006

Ask Jeeves Gets New Menu Sidebar, Maps; Retires Teoma Chris Sherman will have a more formal write-up later in SearchDay about new changes you can now spot up on Ask, in particular a "Search Tools" navigational sidebar that lets you jump between things like web and image search. New on that sidebar is a Maps area, where you can get traditional maps and aerial views. Ask has also announced that the Teoma search engine has been retired. Teoma.com now redirects to Ask Jeeves. The Teoma search technology is being rebranded as ExpertRank, something we predicted back in November.

Posted by Danny Sullivan at 10:45 PM | Permalink

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