Well that puts an end to that: "The Ask representative said that reports of the site becoming oriented towards older women are false and were fueled by an erroneous Associated Press article that has since been changed. Ask acknowledged that married women do compose a lot of its core users and these matronly queries are often about cooking, gardening, health and the like. Still, even though the company plans on building on this user base it isn't going to abandon other users in pursuit of it." - Kevin Fox
Not necessarily.... In my experience as a journalist, if someone says they were misquoted, 90 percent of the time they actually realized what they said was stupid and changed their mind. In other words, "I said that, but I don't mean that now so I didn't say it."... I see that likely being the case here. Ask.com told AP their plans, they saw the overwhelming backlash and backed off. That said, while Ask.com says AP retracted their story, I see no record that they have.... - Chris Reed
