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11.21.09

Ask.com Gives Up Pursuit of Google

Changing course, the search site will no longer try to catch up to the Internet giant

By Gregory Mone Posted 03.05.2008 at 11:07 am 3 Comments

For years, Ask.com has been trying to supplant Google as the Internets search leader, but this week the company has announced that it is headed in another direction. In truth, Ask never really got all that close.

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14 Things Geeks Can Teach The World

We assemble the choicest nerdy nuggets of everyday wisdom from the brightest tech minds around. Start your education now!

By the How 2.0 Geeks Posted 03.20.2007 at 1:00 am 0 Comments

Every group of friends has that one person to go to for tech advice: what kind of TV to buy, the right HTML tags to pimp out a MySpace page, and so on. Believe me, I would know. But although I consider myself fairly willing to share the tech wealth, my powers pale in comparison with the sage wisdom dispersed in the "Ask a Geek" feature found in each issue of Popular Science.

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Ask a Geek: Merlin Mann

Q:What is tagging?

By Merlin Mann Posted 06.23.2005 at 1:00 am 0 Comments

A: Tagging is the act of assigning your own keywords to things online-photos, blog entries, bookmarks-so that you can easily categorize, locate, and share them in the future. One of the best examples is del.icio.us, which lets you save Web bookmarks to a page on the site instead of to a file stashed away on your computer. This way, you can access them from anywhere and let other people see what sites you like.

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