All quiet on the Ansearch front

08 Sep 2005

So I dropped a none-too-flattering allusion to Ansearch into a post about the search engine industry in Australia a bit over a week ago now, and their CEO Dean Jones popped in to say he’d picked up the post via Technorati (I was suitably impressed) and that much had changed since my first “review”.

I took up his invitation to contact him via email with questions and suggestions, but have yet to hear anything back. This is perhaps understandable given the length of the email: but I did at least expect a reply acknowledging receipt of this message. At any rate, at present any opportunity Ansearch may have had to clarify misconceptions presented here hasn’t been taken up. I communicated in the email that I was more than happy to publish not only his responses to explicit questions, but also “anything else you wish to add that I haven’t asked about”.

If anyone from Ansearch picks up this post via Technorati, the offer remains open. If you’d prefer not to use email, I’m happy to do a telephone interview for publication here (both in article form and as a supplementary transcript/podcast).

Update: Dean Jones picked up the post, and sent me an email saying he’ll reply shortly. Watch this space!