I had my exit interview this afternoon and am no longer employed by or affiliated with Ask.com ( Read more... )

Yesterday at work, I tested the relevance of our search engine (as I sometimes do), and one of the queries that I tested was "quizzes from Cosmo magazine." Having all of those quizzes with their little radio buttons in front of me, I was naturally inclined to try a few. You know, for research purposes. And I think I can safely say that the Ask. ( Read more... )

In a world where spammers seem to be squatting on nearly every decent website domain name, it warms my heart to see that ThirdReichDepot.com is an honest-to-God, fully functioning online store. (Okay, so it's just memorabilia, but still! What a name ( Read more... )

Remember in December how a news crew was in my office filming a segment on us? And they were interviewing the Ask.com CEO near my desk?

Well, the segment finally aired on last night's news, and I'm in it but if you blink, you'll miss me. If you can call my arm and half my torso "me ( Read more... )

As Leon already posted, we experienced an earthquake last night. It was only a 3.7 but definitely the biggest (and closest) one I've felt.

I was in the bathroom, washing BART grime off of my hands before dinner, and Leon came in to tell me about his exciting day of watching old Chip 'n Dale cartoons on YouTube ( Read more... )

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I took the last two days off from work for what my PTO request will describe as "cold/flu/plague." I hope my boss finds that as amusing as I do ( Read more... )

My dad sent me the following email just now:

I went on google yesterday and did a search for Ilasco. I went into a Hannibal Public Library site and the picture on the home page was very intriguing to me. If you get a chance, check it out. And tell me who the man is in the front row, third from the right. The photo was taken in 1920.
DAD
The photo ( Read more... )

K, I'm currently looking at session searches from our search engine, which means that if you searched for "what happens if I ingest mold" and then "Mrs. Freshley's donuts," I see that the same person made these searches and wonder if they are in any way related ( Read more... )

Well, slap me with a large trout.

I just looked at Ask.com's search results for the random user query "fish reproduction," and I must've stared at a page about breeding and animal mating for a full two minutes thinking, "What does that have to do with fish reproduction?" Because all I could think of were miniature fish sculptures--not fertilized ( Read more... )