Tonight on “Tech Nation”:http://www.technation.com, the host (Dr. Moira Gunn) is interviewing the father of askjeeves.com (now ask.com), Apostolos Gerasoulis. I’m a sucker for a new technology, and I’ve been looking for an alternative to Google and Yahoo! ever since I learned of their complicity in search filtering China’s access to the internet. It’s probably only a matter of time before other companies cave to make a buck, but for now I’m giving ask.com a try.
The claim is that the engine under the ask.com hood understand “concepts”, and not just “keywords”. All I know is this: search for “steve sekula blog” and “The Adventures of My Pet Hamster” is the numero uno search return!
