Ask.com Sponsored Results – Going Too Far?

Yesterday when I was searching Ask.com it was showing 10 sponsored results above their organic search results.

Click on the screenshot below for the full view — notice that there are 10 PPC ads above the organic search results:
Ask.com Sponsored Results

Also, why is phuket-travel.org #8 for a query for japan hotels? Phuket-travel.org does a meta redirect to world-hotelguide.com.

I previously tried to use Ask.com as my main search engine, but it didn’t last very long…

Popularity: 9% [?]

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This entry was written by Josh and posted on February 8, 2008 at 9:25 pm and filed under Ask.com. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

One Comment

  1. Mike Mozilla Firefox Windows
    Posted February 19, 2008 at 5:29 pm | Permalink

    They need to pay for their tv ads somehow, right? If they release another set look our for 20 links.

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