Ask.com hopes to make search faster, more relevant

October 6, 2008 By RACHEL METZ , AP Technology Writer

(AP) -- Assuming your company's name isn't a verb synonymous with looking things up online, how do you get Web surfers to not just try your search engine, but also frequent it?

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