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Over here in the UK we seen a loads of ads from ask.com with yea oldie jeeves to today sort of army,hacker style…

The new ads are being show almost non stop @ prime time in the UK….

According to hitwise ask has a 4.87% market share (April 2007) but with all the advertising its got to increase..

The newest ad which I saw for the first time yesterday show off a search for london… Ask includes the weather, related terms, blogs news… images, wiki and a maps..

The ad then shows the mouse clicking on the london eye…

Its then shows off the “preview” tool..

Right at the end its say its compairs the preview and other tools to a “plain” search like google results…

If the amount of advertising continues ask could soon over take yahoo for the uk search share!

ASk.com ads are everywhere.. 

Over on cartoonbarry a post about a piccy of yahoo 404 and ask toilet ads made me laugh: 

http://www.cartoonbarry.com/2007/05/yahoo_404_ad_yahoo_snail_askco.html

The thing is, London is covered in the ask / “75% of online information goes through one company” ads!

Well, last night I was sat in a pub in soho with some friends… I after a few much needed beers I was in need for the loo..

Well.. What did I find..

Just seen this on a mate PC..

 Got him to take this screen shot..  Funny imho …

 Its so bad for user experience imho..

I clicked on the add to see what ask was going to off me in regards to msn and the same ebay ad is on both ask and google.. The serps both have msn at the top so whats the point ???

Is ask just paying something like 0.000000001p per click for these crazy terms..

 Any way here the screen shot:

As is soon crimbo and the snow is going to cover the land last start a blog on “foot prints” in the snow..

So in regards to seo, rss, BH and alike what is a foot print.. Well its something left by and application.. The web application used for this blog is word press which has 100’s and foot prints identifying as wordpress.. Not just the link to wp at the bottom but meta info and just folder/code formation…

Any here is a example of one I’ve come across today..

This a script that produces so called “portals” .. I’ve seen the style (application) of these sites submitted to my directories 1,000’s of times..

So for this one you can use the following query..

Click here

The query is from the homepage of seo script.. Thus leaving a foot print in the snow…

Google and alike have some nifty tool from foot print tracking and its a subject I’m going to expand on in the future..

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Good on the search engines…

I always feel a bit warmer inside knowing that the SE offer some love to good causes..

Google homepage:

Ask:

Yahoo.. Cool little animated flash file.. I’ll try and find the file in a bit but here the screen shot:

Nothing on msn / dogpile as yet…

A bit of fun here..

I just read a programers blog who’d search the “php sucks” etc.. and found how many results had related as a public opinion..

This is just for fun and course is mainly forums..

so here we go

google is the worst search engine returned 33

Yahoo is the worst search engine 4

msn is the worst search engine 4

ask is the worst search engine 7

So google is the worst lol.. .BTW i’m using google for these results as I feel google is the best imho

So who is the best then ??

Well if you don’t know archive.org you will now!

 (Archive.org is and archive of the web and much more)

So I’ve gone a taken a screen shot of yahoo msn ask and of course google..

Here are the results:

Yahoo.com Oct 17, 1996 See for yourself: http://web.archive.org/web/19961017235908/http://www2.yahoo.com/

Msn.com Oct 22, 1996  see for yourself : http://web.archive.org/web/19961022175327/http://msn.com/

Live.com Feb 11, 1998 (bit of a joke as this wasn’t msn.. I wonder how much msn payed)
See for yourself : http://web.archive.org/web/19980211191652/http://www.live.com/

Ask.com (the images don’t seem to work ) see for yourself: http://web.archive.org/web/19981212022913/http://www.ask.com/

Last but not least google.com Dec 02, 1998 see for yourself: ttp://web.archive.org/web/19981202230410/http://www.google.com/