Wedding Proposal Via Search

The Ask.com Smart Answers had a question for Barry Schwartz’s girlfriend, and she has answered “Yes.”

RustyBrick and Search Engine Roundtable’s Barry Schwartz worked with the Ask Jeeves team to develop a search-based wedding proposal for his girlfriend. By typing her name into the Ask.com search engine, Ask’s Smart Answers feature ‘popped the question’.

He posted the details on Search Engine Roundtable:

Mr. Schwartz details the work behind the scenes on a site. Not only did the group at Ask.com, including senior VP of search properties Jim Lanzone, make this possible, they also delivered it in a unique way for search engines today:

They did it without ads on the results page.

The couple have announced a May 28th, 2006 date for the nuptials.

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