Apparently, Ask is selling custom hardware to Ask tuned to run search applications: “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 [...]
Categories: ask,clustering,google,open source
This is cool. Apparently, Ask is the safest company to search with: CNet has done a survey study with the major search engines to see who had the best privacy policy. Ask.com, Google, Microsoft, AOL and Yahoo were questioned to compare which search engine does the best at protecting users personal information. Turns out, Ask.com [...]
First off I should make it clear that I’m rooting for Ask here. I like these guys. They have spunk. They’re the underdog doing after the new 800lb gorilla and I really appreciate their courage. They’re also innovating. Have you seen their new UI? Really slick. I love the page transforms. I’m going to have [...]
This is hot and might actually make me abandon Google (at least for a little while). I’ll probably report back when I decide if I like it.I should also note that I’m considering licensing Tailrank’s thumbnailing technology to other non-competitive companies that might be interested.