Ask YC: Ask.com -- Why don't we use it?

Posted by kajecounterhack on Friday August 22, 2008 @08:52PM
from the self-post dept.

I recently rediscovered Ask.com and wondered to myself what I found unappealing about it all. After all, as nice as it looks and as functional as it is, I was still loathe to adopt it.

But then I realized why: I use Gmail. I don't like having to go to a different site to use my mail. I also use iGoogle and read my news. I can't get out of using it all.

So that leads me back to the question, why don't YOU use it? Same reason?

Why doesn't ask.com start providing email services and personalized accounts?

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Re:Ask YC: Ask.com -- Why don't we use it? by azharcs on Saturday August 23, 2008 @01:47AM (#284486)

I tried Ask.com when they redesigned the whole site. Their search is not very good, but i know lot of people using them.

I recently started using Yahoo as my default search, results are way better than Google. Try it out for yourself.

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Re:Ask YC: Ask.com -- Why don't we use it? by gasull on Saturday August 23, 2008 @12:20AM (#284458)

Why do you use it? Do you get better results than with Google? "Why not" is not a reason.

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Re:Ask YC: Ask.com -- Why don't we use it? by cjoh1111 on Saturday August 23, 2008 @01:47PM (#284720)

I don't use ask.com because they index less pages more slowly and not as well.

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