The search engine Ask.com is currently placed fourth in terms of market share has come up with new solution to reclaim its popularity and move up in charts. The site has brought about a new site that will focus on the question-answer based queries rather than relying solely on the web as is seen till now.
The site plans to combine the internet search with interactive features to customize the user’s searcher and make them more appealing. The site is not new to such question answer based searches as it had begun its operation with a similar approach. The site is only going back to its roots to gain on its popularity back. The feature has been very smartly incorporated by the site directly in its search engine.
The working of this new feature will be very simple and as much same as the one users are used to seeing on a search engine. The query of the users will be typed on the home page and as before the ‘search’ button needs to be clicked. The site will return the web searches on the topic along with the ‘ask the community’ button too for further assistance.
This link allows you to get the exact answers you have been looking for by listing a series of keywords to help the system categorize the query. Ask.com actually routes ones questions to other users who have indicated that they’re experts in the areas to which the query belongs.
However the picture presented by the site is in real not very rosy. The feature suffers from man flaws that can’t be overlooked. When scrutinized for the actual performance of the feature it was found that most recent queries had zero to four responses, which is not very impressive. Ask.com’s new community answer feature suffers from the problem that not many have signed up for it as yet so the number of answers is sure to increase as the service opens up further and more people come forward to ask queries and others to solve them as well. As per the site, only about 13,000 people are signed up so far, which is a very small number.
The big question of this hour is that whether this new strategy of the site is good enough to pull ardent Google fans towards it.