A comparison of the four major search engines shows Yahoo! has the most interesting results with a mix of established and fresh content.

The new Ask.com is beautiful… There’s a ‘skins’ option under the search box that lets you change the background image of the page. The result is pretty stunning… But the question is, can you find the forest for the trees when you do a search? In playing around with it I found their blog search [...]

One of the rules in search engine optimization is to use permanent redirects to guide search engines from old URLs to new URLs, but Ask.com doesn’t observe them – or more precisely their implementation of them is completely wacked.