Ask.com Is Better Than Google, Part II

Ah ha! I'm not the only one who thinks this. While I've been sneaking around changing people's home pages to Ask.com without their consent, some members of the media have been doing their homework. Rob Pegoraro of the Washington Post (via the Nashua Telegraph) gives props to Ask.com and Live Search in this article:

Google may not always be your best search option.

Ask, which redid its site this summer, is the most creative. It uses a clean, clever two-column layout that keeps your search query and related links visible on the left at all times, instead of having them scroll out of view. It also provides thumbnail previews of many sites it indexes.

The best feature at Microsoft’s Live search, also recently redesigned, is its “search macros.” The customizable queries limit a search to a set of sites that use particular terms. One of them, for example, looks for recipes posted at five popular cooking sites.