Putting ask.com in perspective

Some real perspectice...<p><a href="http://trends.google.com/websites?q=ask.com,+nytimes.com,+cnn.com,+yahoo.com&#38;geo=all&#38;date=all&#38;sort=0" rel="nofollow">http://trends.google.com/websites?q=ask.com,+nytimes.com,+cn...</a>

Little misleading, comparing an english news site to a search engine, look at just USA:<p><a href="http://grab.by/3LyC" rel="nofollow">http://grab.by/3LyC</a><p><a href="http://trends.google.com/websites?q=ask.com,+nytimes.com,+cnn.com&#38;geo=US&#38;date=all&#38;sort=0" rel="nofollow">http://trends.google.com/websites?q=ask.com,+nytimes.com,+cn...</a>

Serious question:<p>I've been using Quantcast to do these types of comparisons. Is there an advantage to Google Trends over Quantcast?

How much of this is toolbar spam?

Just for another random comparison: <a href="http://trends.google.com/websites?q=webcrawler.com,+excite.com,+iwon.com" rel="nofollow">http://trends.google.com/websites?q=webcrawler.com,+excite.c...</a><p>It's a little amazing that iwon is gaining in market share...

Does anyone know if google gives users the ability to block entire domains from their search results? This is a feature that would benefit not only google, but also reedit, digg, and hacker news dare I say. I would block ask.com in a heartbeat.

What is the total value of the search market? What percentage does ask own?

People often ask me, Ask.com is still around? Yes, it is, and obviously it's bigger and doing better than some other things they do know of.