Google Crawls Ask.com


I thought it strange to see the number one and two results for a Google search related to SpongeBob (don’t ask why I was searching for SpongeBob) turned out to be the search results of another search engine, Ask.com. Just look at those search engine unfriendly urls that Google indexed. Some questions immediately popped to mind. Is this a testament to Google’s objectivity or an algorithmic goof? How many pages of Ask.com does Googlebot crawl and what kind of bandwidth must that soak up? Imagine if every search engine crawled and displayed results of every other search engine… what kind of world would that be?

Google Search Results Show Ask.com

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