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Ask.com
Who runs Ask.com, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest web search engine alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
Measured from Ask.com’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Ask.com01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Ask.com
Ask.com ask.com
Wikidata: search engine
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Ask.com tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 17 alternatives below has fewer; 9 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- OneTrust
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Ask.com’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Ask.com
None of the 60 sites closest to Ask.com match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Ask.com adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack and search numbers · 12 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,217
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 29 ms
Built with
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust TXT onetrust-domain-verification=0b29489132904d33936b0b6ca67dcc72
- CDN
- Fastly header x-fastly-request-id: fcb98515fd404d582fbe8408a3ab533bcc57cec8
- Hosting
- GitHub Pages header server: GitHub.com
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms24657835
- Proofpoint MX mxa-0015af01.gslb.pphosted.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=4d443bb146b2a60fc0c0216c899a6ef9baa971cc3…
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=yJhD0W2WaW5HPS7p
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=uUTQHYge655RxaiCqp-IAyc/Q7GgtoJziDouyp0…
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=ZlaZzwu0TA07KjmzBDYR4ZPfHFSZbKX5HfiTw…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=JFg3HrpCg9igSvCoT2pTcZl2nSFBvmq-2EV8xSVEAmE
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=m1edn0uyfl83daad3otnu4reu52pa1
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify__aC0Zt2USwuBlUFo3rEzoA
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 15/20
- Google Workspace · not on ask.com 9/20
- Meta Business Suite 7/20
- Apple Business 6/20
- GlobalSign 6/20
- DocuSign · not on ask.com 5/20
- Microsoft 365 5/20
- Stripe · not on ask.com 5/20
- Amazon SES · not on ask.com 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on ask.com 5/20
- Next.js · not on ask.com 4/20
- React · not on ask.com 4/20
- Slack · not on ask.com 4/20
- Cloudflare · not on ask.com 4/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on ask.com 4/20
- nginx · not on ask.com 3/20