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25 th Jun 2007

One Engine is Not Enough! Study by InfoSpace Reveals Vastly Different Results from Top Search Engines

infoSpace Inc. a leading developer of proprietary metasearch technologies, today unveiled the results from a study that evaluated search results from the four leading search engines. With search engines producing such differing results, the study illustrates the value of metasearch and Dogpile.com, which returns the top results from each of these leading search engines to provide users with the most relevant and useful information.

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30 th Jul 2007

Ask.com to offer privacy control

Search engine Ask.com has announced it will be introducing a new service called AskEraser, enabling users to ensure that Ask.com does not retain their search histories. Once rolled out, the feature will make Ask.com the only search engine which gives users the option of preventing retention of their search data at the time of their search, as opposed to contacting the search engine company after the fact and attempting to have the data expunged.

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22 nd Jun 2007

Ask.com overhauls search service

Chris Sherman once compared Ask.com to Apple. Ask CEO Jim Lanzone remarked to me that he liked the comparison because it spoke to quality and innovativeness. Indeed, among the top-tier search engines Ask has arguably been the most innovative. In one sense it has to be. Without that effort it might lose hold on the roughly 5 percent search market share it currently has.

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