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:

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…

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