I saw a referral on one my websites today from a search on Ask.com. To my surprise, my website had shown up extremely high up in the results for this search: http://www.ask.com/web?q=whats+the+funnest+game+on+the+app+store%3F&search=&qsrc=0&o=102280&l=dir
Believe me, there are thousands of apps out there (and their respective websites) that should have appeared above mine for what must be a fairly common search. Google and Yahoo searches are proof that my site shouldn't have shown up where it did. I realize that Ask.com is trying to let users form questions rather than queries, but isn't it just a really crappy engine? How does it's page rank work? I just gave one example, but I have seen this countless of times before. Does anyone even use Ask.com here on HN?
