After the iPhone app which recently passed one million downloads, Ask.com is going for the Android users. Their application allows folks to get answers from real people as well as search the web from the same interface.
Available as a free download, Ask.com or Android comes with all of the features its iOS counterpart has, plus some exclusives like voice to text capability, allowing users to simply ask questions without any typing at all.
As with the iPhone version, you can ask other users for opinion, or browse and respond to existing questions. Moreover, thanks to the push notifications support, you can “set it and forget it,” with Ask.com alerting you when a new answer has arrived.
Finally, there’s the ability to follow other users and personalize Q&A by interest, filtering by topics that match your profile.
According to Ask.com’s Jason Rupp (senior director of product management), the company is placing a big bet on mobile as part of the growth strategy. As a matter of fact, over the last three quarters, they experienced a triple digit growth in traffic from smartphones to the Ask.com mobile site, with 60% of visits coming from Android users…
Ask.com (FREE) [Android Market link]