The Economist has a new article up talking about Ask, Google and Friends.
Quote from Jim Lanzone:
…”we’re using search aikido”…
Chris Sherman of SearchEngineWatch:
… thinks that Ask is as good as Google for general web search—but better than Google for finding online maps and images. Ask, he thinks, is therefore starting to resemble Apple in the computer industry…
The Apple of Search?
That’s pretty ridiculous, Ask.com returns pages as results that have been deleted months ago, and it sure as heck is not capable of searching a site (via site:) as good as Google. Try it with Wikipedia.