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Ask.com Special Halloween Home Page

Gary Price [PersonRank 10]

Tuesday, October 31, 2006
17 years ago4,001 views

Ask.com serves up a special holiday logo filled with jack-o-lanterns and the color black.
http://www.ask.com/

Note that the hyperlinks on the page take you to either a info about the day*
   (from Spooky Sounds to Games and Ghost Stories).
http://www.ask.com/web?q=Halloween&qsrc=0&o=0&l=dir

In some cases, this result will appear,
http://www.ask.com/web?q=Last+minute+Halloween+costumes&qsrc=1&o=0&l=dir
with last minute costume ideas.

*NOTE, Ask.com offers these special results with holiday info for many days including Memorial Day, Thanksgiving, Hannukah, and Palm Sunday.
http://www.ask.com/web?q=memorial+day&qsrc=1&o=0&l=dir
http://www.ask.com/web?q=thanksgiving&qsrc=1&o=0&l=dir
http://www.ask.com/web?o=0&qsrc=19&l=dir&q=hanukkah
http://www.ask.com/web?q=palm+sunday&qsrc=1&o=0&l=dir

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

For posterity:
http://aycu12.webshots.com/image/4531/2002678490750989828_rs.jpg

Kevin [PersonRank 0]

17 years ago #

i really like this... the google way of doing this is rather limited (only the logo)

TonyB [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

I like the Ask approach as well. Of course to be more elaborate would just be unGoogle.

TonyB

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

i really liked it too.. :)

speaking of Halloween, look what Yahoo! did :
http://events.yahoo.com/halloween06/

real cool!

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