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As reported in a Wall Street Journal article yesterday, Ask.com has undergone some “restructuring” (a.k.a. layoffs) of its workforce. Forty people have been laid off, which actually accounts for a whopping 8% of the total staff over at Ask.
Now I understand the need for the occasional downsizing to stay ahead of the pack (or in [...]

For the most part, Google has always been fairly keen on new innovations and staying ahead of the pack. However, their design and layout of universal search (a.k.a. blended search) result pages leaves much to be desired.
Simply put, there is a lack of organization in the universal search results - let alone any logical or [...]

Earlier this week, Hitwise released the latest figures of October’s search engine searches, based on a sample of ten million Internet users in the United States. The results are summarized below.
Percentage of U.S. Searches Among Leading Search Engines

October 2007

October 2006

Google

64.5%

60.9%

Yahoo

21.6%

22.3%

MSN / Live Search

7.4%

10.7%

Ask

4.8%

4.3%

The remaining 1.7% of searches is shared among 49 other search engines in [...]