As per comScore.com, the Ask network share search market as a whole nudged up 0.2 percent in September versus August to 4.7 percent (compared to 57 percent market share for Google, 23.7 percent for Yahoo, and 10.3 percent for Microsoft), Ask has improved dramatically their performance recently also both Google and Yahoo still gained more share in September than Ask.com. No doubt Ask.com did take some share away from Microsoft, it means that traffic to Ask.com significantly picking up. It look like that Ask is putting their best effort to bring people to its search engine.