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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: 100Coogn on April 14, 2011, 06:04:46 PM

Title: Search Engine 'Ask vs Google'
Post by: 100Coogn on April 14, 2011, 06:04:46 PM

 Has anyone tried that 'Ask' Browser yet?  It kept popping up on my Google home page.
I'm trying it out right now.  I do gotta' say that my pages appear to be coming up much faster.
 Hope I'm not having a placebo thing going on.  For the dial-up users though, this may help them
out a little.

Coogan <<---Long time Dial-Up user

Title: Re: Search Engine 'Ask vs Google'
Post by: shiv on April 14, 2011, 07:11:38 PM

Ask browser or Ask search engine?

Title: Re: Search Engine 'Ask vs Google'
Post by: 100Coogn on April 14, 2011, 09:37:41 PM

Search engine...
my mistake.

Coogan

Title: Re: Search Engine 'Ask vs Google'
Post by: Tigger29 on April 15, 2011, 10:51:31 AM

Are you talking about the ASK toolbar?  If so then stay away.  Most toolbars are more of a hindrance than they are worth!

My g/f and her whole family used to swear by the yahoo toolbar "because it makes things so EASY!", but once I showed them all the goofiness that it does and also set yahoo.com as their homepage, from which they can do EVERYTHING they could do with the toolbar they no longer use it.

If you want to go to ASK.com for searching then by all means feel free to, but there is never any need to download anything to use it.  Anything you download is used by them somehow to make money.  Whether it be collecting your browsing habits, applying pop-up ads to your system or whatever.. to me it's just not worth the hassle.

Even with Internet Explorer, you can go in and manually set ask.com as your default search provider.  Still no need to download anything.