SEO/SEM Journal: Ask.com Launches European Services

Introduces Ask.com France, Ask.com Italia, and Ask.com Nederland.

Mar. 10, 2006 11:45 AM

Search engine Ask.com announced it has introduced international beta versions of its search service called, Ask.com France, Ask.com Italia and Ask.com Nederland.

The beta search sites are available in each respective country at ask.com's Web site, and can also be accessed directly from any country at fr.ask.com, it.ask.com, nl.ask.com.

''The unique search experience at Ask.com has resulted in the largest US percentage growth among the major search engines for 2005, and we look forward to bringing that experience to more European users,'' says Steve Berkowitz, CEO of Ask.com. ''With the help of Ask.com, Internet users in France, Italy and the Netherlands will now be able to get what they are looking for faster.''

Ask.com launched the European affiliate sites Ask UK in 2001, Ask Espana in 2005 and Ask Deutschland beta in 2006, the new sites represent Ask.com's commitment to establishing its brand throughout Europe. The company plans to power its brand, advanced technology, search tools, and partnerships with leading local content providers to expand its market share.

Published Mar. 10, 2006— Reads 9,261 — Feedback 1
Copyright © 2006 SYS-CON Media, Inc. — All Rights Reserved.
Syndicated stories and blog feeds, all rights reserved by the author.

About Web Hosting News Desk

Latest Cloud Developer Stories

Microsoft Slashes Price of Its Cloud Database

By Maureen O'Gara

As a result, it said, of “customer feedback and evolving usage patterns,” Microsoft cut the price of its cloud-ified SQL Azure database 48%–75% for databases larger than 1GB and introduced a new entry-level 100MB model. It blogged that it’s noticed that many projects start smal...

Cloud Expo New York: Copyright and the Cloud

By Liz McMillan

Wide and cheap availability of cloud-based media services is upon us. With the transformations these services are already bringing to the consumption of music, video and interactive media, change has likewise come to professional workflows. Documents in 2012 are read, written, co...

Cloud Expo New York Speaker Profile: Ajay Budhraja – U.S. Dept. of Justice

By Jeremy Geelan

With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) just four months away, what better time to start introducing you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference... We have technical ...

Rackspace Buys SharePoint Expertise

By Maureen O'Gara

Fresh off a happy quarter, Rackspace said Thursday that it’s bought SharePoint911, one of those you-never-heard-of-them outfits that does SharePoint consulting, training and JumpStart services so it can deliver newfangled SharePoint services along with its existing SharePoint hos...

Enterprise Transformation Using Cloud and Cloud Platforms at Cloud Expo NY

By Elizabeth White

Cloud is a shift from the focus on underlying technology implementation to leveraging existing implementations and further building upon them. Cloud orchestration or a network of clouds is the wave of the future where these clouds can operate with elasticity, scalability, and eff...