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Ask has a rating of 3.31 stars from 90 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Ask ranks 13th among Search sites.

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  • They somehow hacked into my search engine, and now when I click on Chrome, I have to search on ask.
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Top Positive Review

“They had it ryobi didnt”

Eran B.
2/20/22

The explanation or description was vague but I took a chance on ordering the fan they had in stock for my blower and lucky me it was the right part. Thanks guys blower is back in action.

Top Critical Review

“Ask search extension strikes out in all 3 pitches”

Dylan H.
10/1/23

Yeah i'm gonna have to pass on the ask toolbar. The toolbar is not that great. I don't want my browser highjacked.

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Thumbnail of user dylanh76
22 reviews
17 helpful votes
October 1st, 2023

Yeah i'm gonna have to pass on the ask toolbar. The toolbar is not that great. I don't want my browser highjacked.

Tip for consumers:
Don’t use it

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Thumbnail of user arthurc383
1 review
0 helpful votes
June 17th, 2022

This is definitely a scam asked for $1 deposit initially then didn't resolve problem.the a week later took money out from my bank account. BEWARE!

Thumbnail of user peterb760
1 review
0 helpful votes
January 3rd, 2020

£25 taken from my credit card account wrongly on 30. 11. 19. False reviews may be "against the law"! How about taking my £25 - is that against the law?
Of course it is but Ask.com doesn't even acknowledge their actions. When will I get my money back?
This is appalling but now so typical of online robbery!
Peter Beckett
*******@btinternet.com

Thumbnail of user sandrap482
1 review
2 helpful votes
March 12th, 2020

Ask.com used to be a helpful answer to any question. In my experience, no longer. It's become the most irritating smorgasbord of advertisinadvertising with nary an answer in sight. Ask you should be ashamed perverting a good thing to trash for cash. Shame

Thumbnail of user peteh87
1 review
1 helpful vote
September 19th, 2018

I hate that Ask.com is the default search engine in my address bar. It is useless and the results stink. They need to just stop... now!

Thumbnail of user jordync4
1 review
4 helpful votes
November 13th, 2018

I found a way to get rid of this godforsaken app out of your business; on your laptop, in the top right corner of the Google Chrome window, there should see either three dots or horizontal lines. That is the Tools menu. Go to it, and click on the Settings section. When you go into Settings, scroll down to the Search Engine section. Then what you do, is click on Manage Search Engines, and disable the Ask.com search engine, and make Google your Search Engine.

Thumbnail of user victoriav19
1 review
6 helpful votes
January 3rd, 2016

I hate your browser. It sucks. I have to go through so mays links before I find what I'm looking for. And some of them repeat over and over again. With google I get the answer I'm looking for one the first search, I don't know how you stay in business. The only reason I tried using you was because you were defaulted on my computer. Not only that I take me many tries just to find a place to give you this review. What a waste of my time

Thumbnail of user tomm1442
1 review
1 helpful vote
February 1st, 2018

I go to look up WWII and bam you get a coat of $%#@ right there in your face. Not helpful at all this site deserves to be shot receptively over and over with a shotgun

Thumbnail of user jolteona
1 review
0 helpful votes
June 1st, 2019

I looked up keys on ask.com and something ver disturbing came up
Why Ask.com and when I look up something as simple a a drawing
From bfdi it came up as some random business man I looked up
"David BFDI"

It keeps happening with other things it succ so much it deserves to
Go die in a fire that crappy website summarised is

You wanting to buy a shirt online and instead you getting spam mailed
Pictures of llamas doing the hype

Also known as looking up something like a spoon and it comes up with
A very random thing like a deer's antlers or something disturbing
Or even just a bad picture or video of what look up I looked up a carrot
You're expect a carrot you're wrong it came up with a person comparing
A carrot to a coin

Thumbnail of user lizziel2
1 review
1 helpful vote
March 20th, 2016

I talked to a psychic on asked and she was horrible. Everything that she told me was a lied and were things that were not even on my radar in the future. It almost felt like she was trying to convince me on what to do instead of telling me what I wanted to know which was what my future possible entails. I spent $300 and it was money totally wasted. I told them to give me my money back and now they won't. I have been to psychic before but this was seriously the worst reading that I have ever had in my entire life!

Thumbnail of user greggc13
1 review
6 helpful votes
April 12th, 2015

Ask, is a virus they install themselves on your computer and take over your search. Answer. Don't use the ask search sites. If you want to get rid of there icon and auto search on your tool bar try restore on your computer, don't go to a free virus fixer, they will install a virus and then try to sell you software to get rid of it. I'm suprised no one has sued them. They really stink.

Thumbnail of user jillj23
2 reviews
9 helpful votes
February 15th, 2016

I have never seen a business model so shamelessly predicated on the idea of betrayal. Let me give you an example of how Ask works, I'll be the sales clerk at a brink and mortar; are you ready? "Hi, how are you today? So you're looking for information on the war of 1812 huh? Well ill just knock you out and when you wake up, you'll find that I've locked you in a little cage. Oh good you'really awake, so back to the War of 1812, I don't have any information for you but I'd be happy to sell you this jacket made out of lamas hair at above market value, or how about this collection of nuts and bolts engraved with flowers sold by a place in Istanbul, Turkey. What you just want you're freedom? Not with out a fight kiddo. Using Ask, I imagine, Is the online equivalent to joining Scientology.

Thumbnail of user anthonyl49
1 review
5 helpful votes
July 15th, 2015

The management apparently does not live up to commitments made by their sales team. Based on my experience if you pressured them to do so, you are well advised to remain on guard against immature childish vindictive and destructive behavior to property. At the time of this writing it is my intention to place the referenced incident into the most appropriate legal forum with the confident expectations of recovering for willful vindictive damage to property, i. E. entirely childish and unprofessional behavior resulting in loss.

Tip for consumers:
do not sign electronically any statement saying you have received/read documents until you have the hard copy in hand and have carefully read it and/or have it read by an attorney. Expect your purchase process to be dragged on for hours to the point where you are willing to sign anything to get it over with. However if you still choose to enter their arena, eat prior to entering.

Thumbnail of user marybeller2
1 review
5 helpful votes
February 4th, 2016

This website is a rabbit warren. You click on the links and they take you to yet another ASK page - not the website you're looking for. I have NEVER been able to find what I was looking for on ASK.com. Worthless! Irritating!

Thumbnail of user davidw340
1 review
3 helpful votes
April 20th, 2016

A digital disease which will not go away... An evil sticky ugly interfering site. I just hate it. And it won't go away. Should be outlawed!

Thumbnail of user loriv15
1 review
1 helpful vote
September 1st, 2016

I wish this was not a option for search results. Inaccurate and annoying results.

Thumbnail of user michaelw236
1 review
4 helpful votes
March 17th, 2016

What the $#*! is wrong with this dumb $#*! site! I am seriously wanting to sue this site. The don't answer your questions, and every time you ask a question stupid $#*! that is not on topic comes up! Like what the $#*!! Stupid $#*! like this happens all the time! Don't go to this site and waste your time. There are tons of ads that try to get you and hack you, and it's almost like they don't try to work on the site. And when I say every time, I mean EVERY TIME! Your question will not be answered. And if so, it won't really help. Go try for yourself. But I am telling you, don't go to this site. It is a waste of my time, and it will be a waste of your time

Thumbnail of user mindyh5
1 review
2 helpful votes
January 30th, 2015

I wish I could give that crappy, parasitic app a lower score. I was trying to download a java upgrade, which never got done. But this slimy leach program crawled onto my Chrome app, and no matter how many times I uninstall it, it comes right back like a plague. I ever went to the disgusting Ask site to ask how to uninstall. (A big hint is the entire first page is about questions of how to uninstall.) It said to click on the wrench icon in the upper right corner, then select the search engine you want. I clicked Google, closed out, reopened, and again the virus that is Ask appeared Until they allow me to get their tentacles off my search options I will be sharing my view with everyone I know.

Thumbnail of user ingerg
3 reviews
17 helpful votes
August 9th, 2014

Do not download anything from this horror! It comes with the virus-laden Babylon toolbar!

Most of the answers I have seen have been incredibly ignorant, like misspelling words when people have asked how to spell it.

Thumbnail of user ellad10
16 reviews
72 helpful votes
July 16th, 2014

I am very upset with Ask.com. They somehow hacked into my search engine, and now when I click on Chrome, I have to search on ask. I highly despise Ask, and how they got into my laptop. I would never recommend Ask.com to anyone! I only gave it one star because I could not put zero. STAY AWAY FROM THIS WEBSITE! > :(

Thumbnail of user noab20
1 review
4 helpful votes
November 13th, 2015

I was happily using google. But then this showed up. I decided to give it a chance. I tried to get it to find a simple website. But it didn't work. I tried again and again it didn't work. I would not recommend it.

Thumbnail of user leons70
43 reviews
212 helpful votes
April 21st, 2016

I NEVER GET ANYTHING I WANT ON THIS DUMB SITE!

Thumbnail of user lindat46
1 review
3 helpful votes
February 26th, 2015

Terrible, DO NOT go to this site, all you get is a run around and no answers

Thumbnail of user gauriy
1 review
6 helpful votes
July 31st, 2014

I went to ask.com and i needed to ask a question so i registered there it took about 1 hour to register there and then i asked a question it was a good one, And you know what the website did, they didn't know the answer probably so they deleted my question... I was like what the **** Never visit that site, its the worse ever i'd say

Thumbnail of user johnd101
28 reviews
131 helpful votes
February 5th, 2013

First, I take issue with any company that installs software on my computer without my permission. Second, it resets my home page and search engines periodically. Third, it is impossible to get off your computer. I tried Revo Uninstaller, and Ask.com jammed it for over 1/2 hour. I tried to uninstall it through Windows Uninstaller (My Computer) and, although you allegedly uninstalled it, it is still there. It shows no traces anywhere on the computer in programs and does not show on the uninstall list. In essence, it is like a plague.

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