Talk:Ask.com

message: i think there should be something about smiley central, program with a lot of spyware inside. i cannot write it because i don't speak english very good :) --Running 01:39, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I very much agree with this. -Lciaccio (talk) 23:30, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I do not agree, smiley central is not owned by Ask.com, but by IAC, who ownes Ask.com. --Samwb123 (talk) 06:28, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  smiley central 

message: Oh why is the world so cruel? They say hes on vacation or retired, but I know better! We knew you well, Jeeves! 199.224.81.132 02:42, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually "they" didn't kill Jeeves, but the algorithm did. JesseRafe 18:07, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: They killed Jeeves!

message: I edited the jeeves' retirement section based on reviewing the website, which said nothing about a competition. also, there were several items listed, and nowhere did it say that the winner was world cruise Mattjblythe 00:07, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ask forgot to renew the jeeves retirement site, and it was registered and turned into a porn site 72.10.215.230 (talk) 21:12, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jeeves' retirement 

message: The current article claims: "... users typing "google" into the ask.com search engine would be redirected to the information-revolution.org site. [4]"
The quoted source says: "Doing a search on Ask - and only Ask - for "google" returns the above site as the first result."
Returning a search result is not the same thing as a redirect and calling it so is misleading here. For example, www.guugle.org redirects to www.google.com, but Ask.com never redirected to information-revolution.org in response to a query.
Disclosure: I do work for Ask.com in the US, and so although my job is completely unrelated to this campaign in the UK, I do not want to edit the article myself. Can the author of that paragraph correct it? 206.80.1.253 19:56, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Not just in London :  --68.161.143.45 02:51, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Any comment from those inside the company??? There are new billboards in London which don't reference information-revolution but just have a link to Ask.Com. --PaulWicks 08:29, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Amen 74.92.169.169 (talk) 17:47, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Redirect" to information-revolution.org 

message: I recently went to one of Ask Jeeves' astroturfing websites, www.information-revolution.org[www.information-revolution.org], and the Ask Jeeves logo has changed slightly. Now there's the words "The Other Search Engine" underneath it. Should this be included in the article, or should we just show the new logo in the section about the Jeeves' astroturfing?SteveSims 06:15, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New logo? Secondary logo? 

message: A few years ago, maybe about 5, they did an advertising campaign where if somebody asked jeeves a specific question, they win £1,000,000. Does anybody remember what this was? Or prefrably, what the question to be asked was?16:29, 7 July 2007 User:Andysjones
:I think It had something to do with a cryptid? maybe.. but it would've been cool if it was -can I have my $1,000,000 now?-  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.188.105.35 (talk) 13:54, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: On the first five pages of google results on "ask jeeves million pound question" i can't find the question or any article about the price money actually being paid. It's an interesting trivia that should be mentioned in this WP article if anyone can find a proper reference on what the question was and who won the money. PizzaMan (♨♨) 12:04, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Million pound question 

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message: This article links to "Kanisa" a company who bought Ask.com's search technology. The linked Wikipedia article redirects to "church", which I doubt is the proper destination. As it stands now, there is no article for Kanisa in any context, be it church-related or for the software distributor, which is briefly mentioned elsewhere in an article for software firms. Seeing as this is Wikipedia, you could request on a talk page such as that for Self service software vendors  for the creation of a Kanisa article.  It never hurts to write an article of some length about the company, provided it meets Wikipedia's guidelines. -Alan 05:26, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kanisa 

message: Does anyone else remember a so-called "book of answers" that Ask Jeeves published a few years back in paperback? It was meant to be an informative collection of "intriguing" questions and their answers as mundane as "What is that new car smell?" (as advertised on the back cover).  It's possible they were the more frequent questions from the site.  It was called, "Just curious, Jeeves."  
Also, this article fails to clarify the fact that the original web address was Askjeeves.com.  It gives the impression it was never any address besides Ask.com and that solely the company name existed as Ask Jeeves.  If anyone shares my nostalgia (though it is still available on Amazon.com) would you deem it worth adding to the article?
And, forgive me for asking, but why is this talk page riddled with seemingly irrelevant questions.  What does MC Hammer have to do with this article?
Thanks, Alan 24.184.184.177 (talk) 04:23, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ask Jeeves book 

message: A search on WikiScanner reveals edits from the company's domain, and most of the article reads like promotional material for the company.  This is especially notable for a company whose business practices are widely questioned.  I have reverted a part of the page that was critical, adding a reference.  However, it appears as if much work remains to make this POV-neutral. -Lciaccio (talk) 23:29, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: COI / Reads like an ad for the company

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message: Is that the butler from the old Richie Rich comics? Jojo87 (talk) 02:46, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is that the butler from the old Richie Rich comics? 

message: I've just redirected Andy Curtis here in response to a prod. Please merge whatever you deem useful from the history of the article.- Mgm|(talk) 11:28, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Andy Curtis]] 

message: I have a reference that says that Net Effect acquired Ask Jeeves in 1999  Can someone clarify?--Nowa (talk) 15:19, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Net Effect Acquisition of Ask Jeeves

message: According to the new picture uploaded to the gallery, Jeeves has returned. But when I visited the UK Ask.com, there appears to be no evidence of this. So what is it? Andy120290 (talk) 17:36, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It is back now, the difference is that Jeeves is in 3D rendering, thereby allowing more detail.--Marianian (talk) 10:36, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Jeeves is not really back. However, if you type in askjeeves.com instead of ask.com, his picture will appear as a sort of easter egg.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.105.7.242 (talk) 00:43, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jeeves is back? 

message: "The toolbar is sometimes bundled with other software, in which the user has a choice on whether to install it or not. The toolbar also gives the user the option to change his/her homepage to Ask.com, leading some people into thinking the toolbar is malware. The Ask toolbar can easily be uninstalled from Firefox/Internet Explorer[16]."  LOL - weasel words extraordinaire.  I have never asked for it on my machine, assented to it or would ever do so.  It took a few minutes to get rid of the toolbar but ages to get rid of the redirect.  This entry implies that poor, misguided little users can not spot malware when it bites them.  See: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/671 for a few other opinions.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.173.161.79 (talk) 10:51, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Couldn't agree more, nobody actually wants this crap on their machine, which is why they have to be sneaky about it. Scum. 90.209.75.69 (talk) 15:48, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  How many of you people work for this crew ? 

message: Hi - the two "references" to newsgroups aren't suitable because they're by anonymous, largely uninformed users citing anecdotal information.  Someone who was looking at that for a bug report would not find them useful unless they aligned with some comments by more well-known/knowledgeable sources.  Tedickey (talk) 21:30, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  anonymous comments 

message: A question for samwb123, I quote from the source http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions (emphasis is mine)
:Disable or uninstall in Firefox via "Tools -> Add-ons -> Extensions". May need to uninstall via Windows Control Panel (see Uninstalling toolbars). Delete the file "AskSearch.js" (if found) after uninstalling. May also need to reset preferences related to Ask.com (such as keyword.URL) via about:config. 
How can you claim this does not support that the file AskSearch.js may remain even after uninstalling the usual ways?
83.250.229.5 (talk) 15:12, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: AskSearch.js is a search engine for Firefox, just like you have Yahoo, Google, Wikipedia, Ask, Bing, or another search engine by your address bar. And the article already says that Ask.com remains the default search engine until the setting is changed. Samwb123T-C-@ 21:00, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, but shouldn't an uninstall remove all files that were installed, if it works correctly? If the AskSearch.js remains, as the source says it does, see the part of the quote with emphasis, then the uninstall is a bit trickier than just through control panel/addon-menu. Even after changing default search engine, the file remains. 83.250.229.5 (talk) 16:30, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: That's because you have to uninstall the search engine (the 'Remove' button in preferences or options) and restart the browser, not just change it, to remove the file. Samwb123T-C-@ 22:04, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Mozillazine is very clear on that the file may still be there even after uninstalling the toolbar. Do you you mean that you have to uninstall another program/addon as well? 83.250.229.5 (talk) 03:06, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: What I mean is, AskSearch.js is unrelated to the Ask toolbar. Instead, it is the file used for the search bar beside (not under) the address bar (the address bar is where you type in addresses like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar). This is why AskSearch.js still remains after you uninstall the toolbar. You have to click 'remove' in 'Change search defaults' in Internet Explorer and Tools > Preferences or Options > Searching tab in Firefox to remove AskSearch.js. Samwb123T-C-@ 03:35, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: If the file came with the toolbar when it was installed, then it is not unrelated to the toolbar. Anyway, it should be clarified somehow in the article. 83.250.229.5 (talk) 04:38, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uninstalling Ask.com 

message: I've tried this several times, so I can attest to it, but I can't find a website that is a reliable reference. But, there's a bit of trivia about ask.com. If you've never visited askjeeves.com before, there's a cookie that makes Jeeves appear. If clear cookies and visit "ask.com", Jeeves will not appear. However, typing "askjeeves.com" in the URL bar brings him back. I don't know if it's important at all, but it's worth noting.
Ianonavy (talk) 05:40, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Trivia

message: The toolbar section of this article is HIGHLY inaccurate.  Since I am a new user of wikipedia, I don't want to edit it myself and mess it up, but I would like to suggest that it be edited. The toolbar actually contains adware, which is the REASON it is incompatible with Kaspersky.  The article also states that it does not install without the user's consent.  That is a downright lie.  I have seen many cases where it had sneaked on to user's computers.  This website is form the makers of MyWebSearch, a well known virus.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bryzal (talk • contribs) 15:32, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Same comment made a million times on this talk page and to the article. The Ask Toolbar is NOT the MyWay Searchbar. See that page for details. Oh, and if you have a reference to support your claim, other than the website that confuses the Ask Toolbar with the MyWay Searchbar, I will consider adding your claim into the article. Samwb123T (R)-C-E 21:13, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia's place isn't to be biased. Yes, the Ask.com toolbar is occasionally put into installers on an opt-out basis. That doesn't mean that it doesn't install without the user's consent. Sorry Bing, I know you're jealous of Jeeves but life's tough sometimes....
70.27.86.216 (talk) 00:21, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Toolbar 

message: I plan to edit the toolbar section, to make it more accurate.  I have no citations, but the current article also has no citations and is blantantly incorrect to everyone on the talk page.  Sue me. Veggieburgerfish (talk) 16:06, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: You must provide a reliable, verifiable source supporting your claims. Also, please do not confuse the Ask Toolbar with the MyWay Searchbar (MyWebSearch), as these are very different but sometimes get mixed up. And there are sources in the article. Samwb123T (R)-C-E 22:35, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

text: This isn't the place for users to complain about products because they don't work properly for them. This a place for factual information. 70.27.86.216 (talk) 00:23, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  editing the toolbar section 

message: Samwb, if you use a reference, the reference must say explicitly what you are quoting or paraphrasing. You can not draw a conclusion and then reference it, because then you claim that your referenced source says that. If a website says explicitly that a file is not spyware, please feel free to write so, and reference it. But if a website has a policy to only put up files which are tested for spyware, and a file is on that website, then it does not say EXPLICITLY that the file is not spyware. We can draw the conclusion, but then it is OUR CONCLUSION, which is the same as Original Research.
Keep the claim if you wish, there is nothing wrong with the logic behind it, but at least remove the reference, because the reference is erroneous, since it does not say explicitly what you claim. (There is still the question of what constitutes spyware though, the claim could be made that all search engines monitor our websearches, and download.com and other file providers can not have full knowledge of how this information is stored or used).
213.66.250.245 (talk) 07:21, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with your conclusion that that would be original research. However, if you take a look at this page, it explicitly says 'Tested spyware free'. And if you mouse-over the little 'i' next to that claim, it has a little more explicit information. I will change the reference to make it more like this. Samwb123T (R)-C-E 17:16, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: references vs original research

message: As your article mildly suggested, normal means at removal fail.  I tried both the Control Panel uninstall (that program appeared to work, but did nothing) and to disable it in Firefox's add-ons (that program also appeared to work, but did nothing).  This program obviously has some of the self-protection features of the worst viruses! 
On my WinXP computer, ask.com rode in as a Trojan bundled with some freeware that I installed from a reputable download site (either c-net or Snapfiles). I have noticed this attempt by ask.com before, but disabled it at installation. I NEVER wanted it to begin with!  Acting as a VIRUS, it then SPREAD from the unwanted toolbar on Firefox to an unwanted toolbar on MS Internet Explorer, which then proceeded to act like nagware or adware by adding insult to injury by asking me; why not change your default search engine to us? 
I am FAR from alone in this, this M.O.  seems to be S.O.P.  If one googles: removal OR remove OR Uninstall tool-bar "ask.com" - then one finds many complaints that mirror my above comments, often in even stronger language! (About 166,000 results) Such as: "My PC is infected with ask.com malware on both Firefox and IE7" Frankly I was surprised when my anti-malware program Ad-Aware did NOT offer to remove it/them. (The above Help sites I've been to so far are long and worthless suggestions at trying my above "solutions." Seemingly what is needed is a malware removal tool.) 
These self-protection "features" are UNACCEPTABLE!  This viral spreading is UNACCEPTABLE! Even what your article mildly under-suggests is UNACCEPTABLE!  ...in any reputable mainstream software.  That it won't cleanly uninstall via standard methodology means at BEST that it's crapware.  Will sombody please correct the article?
Thank You.  
Doug Bashford--68.127.91.126 (talk) 16:04, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can't Remove, common problem, -- ask.com seen as Malware / Trojan  

message: Despite I'm generally very careful with this sort of thing, today, as I was building a DVD with my antivirus unactivated, I unfortunately typed this address: http://www (dot) brynosaurus (dot) com/cachedir/ and I was redirected to this one: http://geti (dot) com/dvds. Before I could do anything, a software was installed into a new Ask.com folder of Program Files, with the name "Search-Results Toolbar" and an S-shaped logo, a plugin and a search engine installed in Firefox, a search engine in IE I never use, my home pages were moved to this geti site.
I used the uninstaller and made a system restore. But it reinstalled the toolbar and all its settings and plugins. My Internet caches had been cleaned before the restoration, the Ask folder was deleted, but the software uninstaller may have a protection that re-installs it, as Avast antivirus does.
Seems I got rid of this pest after another cleaning and system restore, but as I typed a search about this malware in Firefox 4 address bar, I was redirected to this "Search-Results" engine instead of Google: it has become the default search engine. So maybe I did not completely get rid of this malediction.
Wikipedia should not keep articles written by those lamers in order to promote their sh***--Francois C (talk) 17:45, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Obvious malware - Unfortunately lamers can also write articles in Wikipedia 

message: http://www.benedelman.org/spyware/ask-toolbars
Sitting somewhere between elightening and disturbing...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.128.71.224 (talk) 00:04, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current Practices of IAC/Ask Toolbars 

message: I'm making a few changes to the toolbar controversy section. First of all, one guy ranting it about it five years ago does not constitute a controversy. Second, "PC Decrapifier" is definitely not a reliable source for the claim made; on top of that, even that site says only 37% of people removed it, meaning most people feel it's just fine. Definitely undue weight. Finally, the page cited for the claim about Comodo detection comes up with a 404 error, so that whole statement is unsourced. Based on some of the talk comments above, it seems a few people are confusing this with another toolbar. Might be part of the same company, but not the same toolbar. Kafziel Complaint Department: Please take a number 12:59, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, you certainly sound unbiased and unemotional about it. Kafziel Complaint Department: Please take a number 01:57, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: POV Detected. 181.50.211.135 (talk) 20:56, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it's a (vast) majority point of view that ask.com software is annoying malware. If you disagree, please provide sources about how great it is.PizzaMan (♨♨) 12:13, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Controversy" section 

message: Should the lead paragraph include that IAC / Ask.com is a distributor of malware? Red Slash 03:38, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems there are tons of sources after a quick google search but I think it should say something like "ask.com toolbar is criticized by some such as neowin.com etc for being malware." I don't think we have absolute evidence that it is malware but some sources say it "acts like malware". 
http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-now-considers-the-ask-toolbar-as-malware
Popish Plot (talk) 14:59, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

text: I found a source from 2013 calling it "deceptive software" . Recent stories about Microsoft explicitly call the older versions of the ask toolbar malware but fall short of saying the same thing about the current version  . —David Eppstein (talk) 02:36, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the truth is that a lot, maybe the majority, of free downloadable apps are malware. Why give it away for free unless it's sending back info or some sort of unwanted action. But unless a source says it for something we can't mention it in Wikipedia. And if a source says something is deceptive software, that is not the exact definition of malware so we can't paraphrase it into saying it is malware. Popish Plot (talk) 13:39, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: RFC

message: If sources exist, as some claim, to support identifying the Ask toolbar as malware, I'd agree to the use of the term in the article. Please provide citations. Jojalozzo (talk) 02:11, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems there are tons of sources after a quick google search but I think it should say something like "ask.com toolbar is criticized by some such as neowin.com etc for being malware." I don't think we have absolute evidence that it is malware but some sources say it "acts like malware". 
http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-now-considers-the-ask-toolbar-as-malware
Popish Plot (talk) 14:59, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

text: I found a source from 2013 calling it "deceptive software" . Recent stories about Microsoft explicitly call the older versions of the ask toolbar malware but fall short of saying the same thing about the current version  . —David Eppstein (talk) 02:36, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the truth is that a lot, maybe the majority, of free downloadable apps are malware. Why give it away for free unless it's sending back info or some sort of unwanted action. But unless a source says it for something we can't mention it in Wikipedia. And if a source says something is deceptive software, that is not the exact definition of malware so we can't paraphrase it into saying it is malware. Popish Plot (talk) 13:39, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
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message: In this paragraph -- “To avoid a situation in which no answers were available from its own resources, the company outsourced to an unnamed third-party search provider the comprehensive web search matches that it had gathered itself.”, the last phrase seems to have a bit of text missing; specifically, “the company outsourced to an unnamed third-party search provider the comprehensive web search matches that it had gathered itself” is not predicated around “the.” I would make a correction myself, but I don't know the specific emphasis of this phrase. 65.35.50.174 (talk) 15:47, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing text? 

message: They need some money 196.189.242.44 (talk) 04:40, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change the given statement to its question