Ask.com has announced it is going back to its question and answer style search engine. In doing so it will involve search algorithms and also human help and assistance.
Ask.com announced this is an official blog, quoted as saying, "Today we've officially launched the public beta for the new Ask.com, which combines our proprietary answers technology (specifically tailored to extract questions and answers from the Web) with the human insight of the thriving Ask.com community drawn from our 87 million monthly uniques."
Recent times have seen the Ask.com website drop down to 4th in the search engine listings, behind that of Google, Bing and Yahoo. Ask.com are hoping going back to their roots and giving people answers to questions and related search results will see them get more of the market share of the search engines.
The final word going to Ask.com, "Ask.com is now uniquely able to offer the most comprehensive and convenient approach to getting answers, combining pages and people to help users find the answers to all questions - even questions for which no answer is published online."
Search Engine market share sees Google with 84.96% of the global search market, Yahoo with 6.24% and in third spot Bing with 3.39% of global searches.
