An Unlikely Entrant In The Location App Race At SXSW: Ask.com

There's a fairly insane rush currently underway to launch new services in time for SXSW next week. Most of these are obviously startups hoping to hit it big at the conference and ride that success to greatness just as Twitter and Foursquare did. And then there's another player, of an entirely different scale, looking to leverage the conference with a brand new location-based app: Ask.com . When you think of Ask.com, you definitely don't think of a location-based app. But that's exactly what the service has built, completely unrelated to their flagship search engine. And it's actually a pretty cool, simple idea.