Ask to Introduce New Q&A Engine Soon, Greg Sterling, Search Engine Land (Jul 15)
Ask.com has announced a Q&A search that is more social to be launched July 29.
On July 29th, Ask will announce a brand new product aimed at delivering the best answers to people’s questions through a unique hybrid approach (think: a little bit search, a little bit social) that is not available on the Web today.
Greg Sterling mentions several other Q&A services and notes "none of these so far (we haven’t see Facebook’s) have quite “gotten it right” in my opinion. "
Sometimes a Q&A can have answers but the questions have to be something someone would bother to answer (meaning the popular, consumer oriented, and sometimes technical), and you have to be able to plow through the nonsense.
It's hard to believe that this is the thing that will revive Ask.com
Also - IAC To Put The Ask Back In Ask.com On July 29th (IACI), SF Chronicle (Jul 15)
Posted by Gwen at July 19, 2010 02:36 PM