Asking for it?
Ask.com has finally decided to stop chasing Internet search leader Google, and will focus more on being a women’s question and answer site. By doing so ask.com will have to lay off 40 employees that is 8% of its workforce. The press release that ask.com recently released, stated that it will focus more on how these recipes children’s homework and other concerns of women. Ask.com has spent a long time chasing search leader Google and according to calm score they have only reached the rank of fifth and search engine traffic in the US with only a 4.5% market share. It will be interesting to see how well ask can return back to the truths of trying to fill that need in the industry, and how well the market will react to not having as.com is a search engine.
