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Jordon McCollum writes, "It seems that some people don’t wish to believe Ask.com’s backtracking this week. After several mainstream media stories were published about Ask.com focusing its efforts on women, the blogosphere immediately decided that Ask would no longer be a search engine—it was going to be a Yahoo Answers-type women’s site.

And now that Ask is trying to mitigate the impact of those stories, Ask is somehow lying. But let’s take a deep breath, take a step back from emotional connections to the story, and look at this analytically."
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from TheMcHugh 1538 Days ago #
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I’ve read so many different things about Ask this week that I have no idea what the real plan is.  Are they just going to serve ads and google search results?  Are they not going to move forward with search?  Thanks for letting me know I’m not the only one confused.  But in the end only 1.5% of my traffic comes from Ask as it is and it’s almost all PPC, so do I need to care what they plan to do?

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