www.ask.com

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www.ask.com

• hinterfragt
• von Michael Domes
• Informationsvermittlung Juan Gorraiz 17.01.2007

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Internet - Suchmaschinen
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Marktanteile - Suchmaschinen
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Marktanteile - Suchmaschinen

• Google's lead indeed looks daunting. It has by
  far the most mass, with an American market share
  of 43 as of April, which reaches 50 counting
  AOL, an internet property that uses Google's
  search technology.
• This compares with 28 for Yahoo!
• 13 for MSN, which belongs to Microsoft
• 6 for Ask, which is owned by IAC/Interactive
  Corp, a conglomerate of about 60 online media
  brands.
• (Googles market share grew by 17 in the four
  quarters to this spring
• Yahoo! and MSN both lost share.
• Only Ask has more velocityits share grew by
  35but then again it has little mass.)

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Überblick Portale von IAC Search

• Ask.com
• AskforKids.com
• Bloglines.com
• Evite.com
• Excite.com
• FunWebProducts.com
• iWon.com
• MyWay.com

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Suchalgorithmus von Ask

• Ask has come up with ExpertRank, an algorithm
  that also ranks web pages by incoming links, but
  is different from Google's PageRank - it first
  groups, or clusters, pages and links by theme.
  So instead of using a web page's overall
  popularity to calculate its ranking, it finds the
  pages that are most popular among experts on a
  particular subject, a method that often returns
  better results than Google's. Ask also uses these
  thematic clusters to suggest the best ways to
  narrow or expand a search, a feature called
  zoom that is very popular.

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Ask - Operatoren

• Default Operation The default setting is an AND
  operation.
• Boolean Searching Limited Boolean searching is
  available. Ask defaults to an AND between search
  terms and supports the use of - for NOT. Either
  OR or ORR can be used for an OR operation.
• Unfortunately, no nesting is available, so term1
  term2 OR term3 is processed as (term1 AND term2)
  OR term3. Try the advanced search, but it is
  still difficult to do a term1 AND (term2 OR
  term3) search.
• Proximity Searching Phrase searching is
  available by using "double quotes" around a
  phrase.

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Suche - Einschränkungen

• Limits Ask has limits for language, domain,
  geographic region, and date. All are available
  from their advanced search page.
• The geographic regions include continents and
  subcontinents Africa, Central America, Europe,
  India or Asia, Middle East, North America,
  Oceania, South America, and Southeast Asia.
• Dates can be specified or chosen from the
  following drop-down options Last week, 2 weeks,
  month, 3 months, 6 months, year, or 2 years.
• For language limits, used the advanced search or
  add the command lang followed by a two letter
  code for the language.
• For example mondialement langfr adds the
  French limit to a search on 'mondialement.'
• Danish langdaDutch langnlEnglishlangenFrench
  langfrGerman langdeItalian langitNorwegian
  langnoPortuguese langptSpanish
  langesSwedishlangsv

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Suche nach Feldern

• Field Searching The following field searches
  were introduced in Nov. 2002. It appears that
  only one at a time can be used, and most cannot
  be combined with other search terms.
• So, intitle and site can be combined, but
  intitle and inurl cannot. These are also
  available on their advanced search page.
• FieldExplanation intitleFinds pages that have
  the term(s) in the HTML title element. Can be
  combined with a phrase search.
• intitle"search engines". inurlFinds pages that
  have the term(s) somewhere in the URL (host name,
  path, or filename). If one inurl is used, all
  search terms are searched within the title
  element. Can be combined with a phrase search.
  inurlsearchenginewatch.siteFinds pages from the
  designated Web site. This is really a domain
  limit.
• lastFinds pages from one of the specified
  periods week, 2weeks, month, 6months, year,
  2year.
• last2weeksafterdateFinds pages with a page
  stamp date later the query in yyyymmdd format. 
  afterdate20051022beforedateFinds pages with a
  page stamp date before the query in yyyymmdd
  format. 

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Zoom - Suche

• Zoom Related Search
• Narrow or broaden your search with possible
  alternative search terms which appear on the
  right hand side of the Ask results page.
• Narrow Your Search helps you to drill down into
  topics that are specifically related to your
  search
• Expand Your Search allows you to explore topics
  that are conceptually related to your search
• Related Names presents a list of names that are
  conceptually tied to topic options within the
  "Narrow Your Search" and "Expand Your Search"
  lists

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Bilder - Suche

• Image Search
• Find celebrity images, pictures of your next
  vacation destination, or the home you plan to buy
  with a quick image search. Simply enter the key
  words and get great image results in one
  click.Sample Searches
• Lindsay Lohan pictures
• Pictures of San Francisco
• Images of Apache helicopters

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Wörterbuch

• Dictionary Search
• Need to know the definition or pronunciation of
  a word, origin of a word or just a new word
  altogether? Quickly search the online
  dictionaries, encyclopedias and thesauri for the
  information you need.

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Film - Suche

• Movie Search
• Quick access to the latest information for
  upcoming and recent film releases. Just enter the
  name of the movie you are looking for.

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Blog - Suche

• Blogs Feeds
• Blogs and Feeds Search the blogosphere using the
  unique algorithm that combines Ask.com search
  technology and Bloglines subscription data.

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Who is Who

• Famous People Search
• Get the latest news and pictures about your
  favorite celebrities or historical figures using
  the Famous People Search tool. Sample searches
• Elvis
• Muhammad Ali
• Abraham Lincoln

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Neueste Nachrichten

• News Search
• Quickly find all the breaking news local and
  international with the News Search tool.
  Sample Searches
• Iraq news
• World Cup
• George Bush News

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Adressen - Suche

• White Pages Search
• Quickly find phone numbers and addresses for
  people, businesses, government offices, doctors,
  and schools in the U.S. Sample Searches
• address of John Smith in New York
• phone number of William Jones Chicago
• phone listings for Paul Chew San Francisco

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Die populärsten Suchanfragen

• Ask.com IQ Popular Searches
• The most popular searches on Ask.com are listed
  here so you can see what others search for on
  Ask.com.

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Seitenvorschau

• Binoculars Site Preview
• Get to what you're searching for faster! Just
  point your mouse on the Binoculars icon and a
  preview of the site will appear, saving you time
  and the hassle of clicking through search results
  to get what you want.

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Seitenvorschau
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Ask Stärken - Schwächen

• Strengths   Identifying metasites   Refine
  feature to focus on Web communities
• Weaknesses   Smaller database   No free URL
  submission 

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Ask - Aussichten

• Chris Sherman of SearchEngineWatch thinks that
  Ask is as good as Google for general web
  searchbut better than Google for finding online
  maps and images. Ask, he thinks, is therefore
  starting to resemble Apple in the computer
  industry, which has a small but dedicated
  following of fans who consider the Macintosh
  operating system superior to the dominant Windows
  system by Microsoft.