Gary Price intervjuad i Library Journal och Ask.com prisad av Mossberg

Gary Price intervjuas i Library Journal 20 mars om sin nya position på Ask.com. Han säger att han är kontakten mellan biblioteksvärlden och Ask.com och ingen försäljare för Ask.com. Men förutom detta så hjälper han naturligtvis Ask med produktutvecklingen och uppdaterar fortfarande sina egna projekt Resourceshelf och Docuticker. Men hur går det ihop att fortfarande bevaka söktjänstvärlden kritiskt och samtidigt vara förespråkare för Ask.com. Så här svarar han:

There will be nothing different—absolutely nothing. If you look at it since I started at Ask.com nothing there would suggest that Resource Shelf will become a vehicle for Ask.com. This is very important to me. If they had wanted me to become an evangelist or salesman for them I probably wouldn’t have taken the job. Yes, my interest and focus is in Ask.com and how to improve the product, but the coverage on Resource Shelf and on DocuTicker is not a place to just talk about Ask.com. I maintain complete editorial freedom and I still own both Resource shelf and DocuTicker, so that’s another great part of this opportunity that Ask.com has given me.

Walter Mossberg ger också positiva omdömen till nya Ask.com i sin artikel “Ask.Com’s New Look Scores Big Points Against Search Rivals” från 30 mars:

I’ve been testing the new Ask.com against the search champ, Google. I’ve found that in terms of relevant results and ease of use, Ask holds its own with Google, and even beats the champ on some searches. It has some very nice features Google lacks, including previews of the sites it finds, an easy way to narrow or broaden your search results, and frequent top-of-the-screen answers that lead you directly to core information.