Ask.com becoming the search engine that could

The butler is dead, the name has been tweaked, but executives at Ask.com would like to remind the world that they are still very much in business.

In fact, they're actually doing pretty well these days.

"We certainly are the underdog. We're certainly living in a Google world," Ask.com Chief Executive Jim Lanzone said. "But Ask is anything but small compared to the rest of the Web. We're the fourth-ranked search engine and one of the top 10 Web properties."

Just this week, the portal Lycos announced that it had chosen Ask.com to replace Microsoft for its natural search listings and Google for sponsored listings.

"We selected Ask.com over other providers because of its great search technology and tools like Zoom-related search, which cannot be found on other engines," Lycos Chief Operating Officer Brian Kalinowski said in a statement on Wednesday.
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