Comments on: Red, white and blank: the new Ask home page sans Jeeves

By: TDavid

TDavid — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:10:27 +0000

Thanks for stopping by and commenting Bjorn. No, I don’t “have to give them credit” and I rather like the plain Google setup. I don’t care for the blue header of MSN and Yahoo? Well, they have too much advertising blended in with the results. I’m disappointed that Ask didn’t do something with some curves and rounding edges instead of the same blocky read/white design. They didn’t have to throw out their brand/color but it looks more like they just ripped Jeeves out and added the sidebar.

By: Bjorn

Bjorn — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:06:08 +0000

I have a friend who’s a senior engineer at Bloglines and he’s been telling me that Ask has been working hard to revamp their search and come out as legitamite search option. I don’t think I’ll start using ask (I use bloglines all the time) but you have to give them credit. I think the new front page looks much better than Google’s, Yahoo’s or MSN’s. That’s why I submitted it to digg.

By: Sterling Camden

Sterling Camden — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 19:12:28 +0000

Seems like they axed some name recognition along with the butler, IMHO.