Ask Mocks Googling

[dutter]

Unlike its much more heavily visited search competitor Google, Ask.com has no problem with its brand name being a dictionary word.

Google wants to be synonymous with search, not a synonym for search that anyone could use for any search engine. Ask doesn't seem terribly bothered about its etymology.

More... (http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/wpn-60-20061027AskMocksGoogling.html)

[Martinscholes]

It is sad isn't it?

And how sad that they allowed the name Ask Jeeves to be taken from them by the estate of the late P.G. Wodehouse?

A bit of real research would have thrown up the information that Jeeves was a real butler at a house in Shropshire, Apley Castle, near Wellington, where it is rumoured, Wodehouse stayed. So they could have used that as a defence against the estate.

Maybe if Ask had Googled it it might have come up? :)