The unique search experience at Ask.com has resulted in the largest U.S. percentage growth among the major search engines for 2005, and we look forward to bringing that experience to more European users. With the help of Ask.com, Internet users in France, Italy and the Netherlands will now be able to get what they are looking for faster.

Germany has the greatest number of Internet users in Europe, with more than 42 million people online, and we believe it will be a very important market for the growth of Ask search technology and the Ask brand.

The new Ask.com is the culmination of years of innovation, combining the most advanced core search technology with one-of-a-kind tools that make search better. People deserve a search engine that gives them the tools to get what they need faster, not just a bunch of links on a page. Ask.com takes search to the next level.

We are excited to be extending the capabilities of the My Way portal platform to Frontier. Like Frontier, My Way is committed to customer satisfaction and continuously delivering a world-class portal with leading content and search services to Frontier's customers.

This is really the first time in our history that we have been able to stand up and shout about what we are doing so we can get the attention we deserve.

Just with those two handicaps, she's pretty amazing doing what she does.

It's going to take a lot of time before users are going to trust putting a lot of information into the computer, when there are scams that go on and you keep reading about credit card and identity theft.

The user will benefit from the ability of the technologies to understand more about them to make search more relevant and to make information retrieval more relevant. But it will take time and probably more than people anticipate.

If some people are upset about the butler going away, so be it. As more people come to our site and are satisfied with the results they get, they are going to forget the butler.