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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ask.com plans to upgrade its search engine on Monday with several enhancements that it considers significant and that it believes could give its popularity a boost in ...

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 ...

While Facebook, Mint (INTU), Amazon (AMZN), and eBay (EBAY) figure out ways to leverage backend information about what people buy, a whole other class of startups like Swipely and Milo are offering ...

Today, Google captures nearly 65% of all U.S. search queries, according to ComScore. But Ask.com, the granddaddy of question and answer based search sites, isn’t bowing out just yet. Established in ...

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 ...

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 ...