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The Algorithm Has a Thing for Housewives

in News on March 5, 2008 at 8:22 am PT

Looks like that big shake-up at Ask was so violent it muddled the brains of the company’s executive leadership. This morning the company announced plans to retool itself as a search engine for housewives. Seems Ask.com believes its core demographic is married women living in the American South and Midwest looking for information about health, [...]