Saturday, April 01, 2006

Ask.com Caters to Bad Rappers

Ask.com announced today the introduction of RhymeRank, an innovative search technology capable of producing related search results that rhyme with a searcher's original query....

"Web 3.0 is clearly upon us," noted John Battelle, author of The Search, and one of the world's leading experts on the search industry....

Aspiring rappers and poets are a huge, untapped market," said lead engineer Keith Hogan. "Someone will win a Grammy one day using this product. Or, at the very least, an Open Mic Night.


Considering how the big three search engines are trouncing on them with a combined 83.4% market share, Ask.com's April Fool's joke just fails to be funny. They should get Vanilla Ice to endorse this.