I like to use Ask once in awhile, just because.
I came across their blog:

blog.ask.com/

hasn't been updated in 4 months.

embarrassing.

That *is* pretty weird. Particularly since they seemed to post whenever they had new features, and that was decently frequent.

Well, they've just entered a new post.

blog.ask.com/2008/06/askcom-ma ...

Basically it's saying that unlike Google (blogoscoped.com/forum/132846.h ...), which they refuse to name ("a major company in the search marketplace"), they've decided to include a privacy link on their homepage.