Hi Ish,
At 09:58 23-06-2015, Ish Sookun wrote:
>Precisely, I find a proper research is lacking. I give you a
>scenario; if tomorrow I develop a search app and use Google's engine
>and spam everyone with the app, you blame whom? Google or me?
Google would block the app. The company could also take legal action.
>All of those tool-bars contributed to Ask.com getting web traffic.
I tried one of the software which you mentioned; it installed an
Ask.com toolbar. I uninstalled the software. Although the toolbar
no longer appears in the web browser the software is still enabled as
an add-on in the web browser.
>If Google.com appears as the most visited website, will people
>question whether this has been achieved through tool-bars, partner sites etc?
There will be questions if the traffic is considered as suspicious.
>I am not taking sides saying which tool-bar is better or if
>tool-bars are good at anything. My point is we do not have a proper
>research yet. There was no survey carried in Mauritius to ascertain
>how Ask.com reached the 10th position; ask.com tool-bars, partner
>sites, partner applications, how exactly?
I don't have any data to explain why ask.com was listed 10th.
>google.mu and on ask.com. Have a look at both pages, how the results
>are presented? Maybe we could even continue this particular
>discussion in a separate thread :-)
I did not test that. :-)
Here are the results for two searches:
http://www.elandsys.com/~sm/search-20150623-ask-com.png
http://www.elandsys.com/~sm/search-20150623-google.co.uk.png
Regards,
S. Moonesamy
Received on Tue Jun 23 2015 - 20:10:02 PST
