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Hi, Good show. I checked your links on Maxthon [my IE without the IE baggage] and on Firefox (default browser with ABP add-on) for comparison. 1. On FF I have

by Surio 14y ago

Hi, Good show. I checked your links on Maxthon [my IE without the IE baggage] and on Firefox (default browser with ABP add-on) for comparison. 1. On FF I have ABP installed, but there were no ads on Maxthon either for Ask. Is it due to "search bubble" or something else? Not sure. However, I too use uk.ask.com for my searches like you, so the 'bubble' should be the same for me as well. Hmmmm. 2. I got those two false positives also. But the rest of the search results were similar between both search engines (SO, rice.edu, stanford.edu, sourceforge, NVIDIA). I'll admit that I would have simply filtered those two anomalies visually and not given it a second thought. But wouldn't you say, search-for-search, the landing pages were pretty similar in the results returned (barring those two stupidities)?

michaelt 14y ago
Here's the first screen I see on ask (on a 1050px high monitor): http://imgur.com/MWk9wm2 http://imgur.com/MWk9wm2 And here's what I see on Google: http://imgur.com/nalUhES http://imgur.com/nalUhES
- Surio 14y ago
  Managed to find a suitably large monitor. Here's my landing page for comparison. On Opera with Adblocker installed. I get the same results on Maxthon that has no addons to block ads. Let me know if you want to see Maxthon screen. Ask: http://i.imgur.com/rX72PDd.png http://i.imgur.com/rX72PDd.png Google: http://i.imgur.com/Q0BusaH.png http://i.imgur.com/Q0BusaH.png
  - michaelt 14y ago
    Interesting. I guess with an ad blocker, Ask isn't so bad.
    - Surio 14y ago
      Yes, definitely been an interesting discussion. Thanks :-). Even more surprising for me was Maxthon's ad-free results as well. FWIW, I'd definitely recommend looking into other alternative search engines like those I mentioned earlier. Usually my opera's speed dial default engine is dogpile [http://www.dogpile.com http://www.dogpile.com] that curates Google, Yahoo and Yandex results into one search result on one page. Definitely also worth looking into if you're interested. I use Bing often, as I love Bing's homepage. Oh! those panoramic pictures. You got to give it to them. They definitely got that UX right. ;-) Edit: Blekko and DDG are quite fab. And for an old contender, Lycos quite literally, rocks! Try them.

by Surio 14y ago

michaelt 14y ago

Here's the first screen I see on ask (on a 1050px high monitor): http://imgur.com/MWk9wm2 http://imgur.com/MWk9wm2 And here's what I see on Google: http://imgur.com/nalUhES http://imgur.com/nalUhES

Surio 14y ago
Managed to find a suitably large monitor. Here's my landing page for comparison. On Opera with Adblocker installed. I get the same results on Maxthon that has no addons to block ads. Let me know if you want to see Maxthon screen. Ask: http://i.imgur.com/rX72PDd.png http://i.imgur.com/rX72PDd.png Google: http://i.imgur.com/Q0BusaH.png http://i.imgur.com/Q0BusaH.png
- michaelt 14y ago
  Interesting. I guess with an ad blocker, Ask isn't so bad.
  - Surio 14y ago
    Yes, definitely been an interesting discussion. Thanks :-). Even more surprising for me was Maxthon's ad-free results as well. FWIW, I'd definitely recommend looking into other alternative search engines like those I mentioned earlier. Usually my opera's speed dial default engine is dogpile [http://www.dogpile.com http://www.dogpile.com] that curates Google, Yahoo and Yandex results into one search result on one page. Definitely also worth looking into if you're interested. I use Bing often, as I love Bing's homepage. Oh! those panoramic pictures. You got to give it to them. They definitely got that UX right. ;-) Edit: Blekko and DDG are quite fab. And for an old contender, Lycos quite literally, rocks! Try them.