I heard an audiocast interview with celebrity CEO Barry Diller.
He was being interviewed because his firm — IAC/InterActiveCorp — had been named America’s #1 Most Admired Company in the Internet Services and Retailing Industry by Fortune Magazine.
I’m supposed to be following what’s happening on the internet. And I’d never even heard of IAC.
Some of their websites are familiar:
* Bloglines.com
* Excite.com
* Ticketmaster.com
* Match.com
And, of course, their Ask.com search engine:
It’s “pretty“. But search results are TERRIBLE compared with Google. (Try it yourself on a search term you know well.)
So far as I can see, Google continues to draw away from the rest of the field when it comes to search. (Thought Microsoft has improved from worst-of-all to 3rd best.)
IAC is getting good press as Google’s up-and-coming rival.
Competition is good. Go IAC!
But Google is my most admired brand when it comes to search.
You will save a lot of time if you use Google to search over any other engine, especially Ask.
Rick McCharles 