Have you been watching Treasure Hunters on Monday nights? The show is a mix of The Amazing Race and an Americanized version of The DaVinci Code. In the show the hunters have a laptop available to them and they use ask.com to help them find things.

In last weeks episode they were hunting for an artifact in Paris. The location they needed to go was the Catacombs of Paris. During the show the contestants were shown typing into ask.com ?�?maps of paris france?��

Why didn?��t they try the mapping technology from ask.com? Because, when you ask ask.com for a map of Paris, France ?�� this what you get.

But they do have detailed street maps of Paris I had to scroll from US over the Atlantic to get to Paris. I could not get it to be returned as a result for any of my searches.

But if you search for this Les Catacombes de Paris, France you get nothing.

If you know the address you do get a result:

102 quai de seine Paris, Ile-De-France, France 95530

What would happen if they were allowed to use Google?First, they could actually get a map of Paris by a keyword search.

And if they asked this question, they would get to see where the Catacombes are: Les Catacombes de Paris

And if they knew where they were they could even get directions to the Les Catacombes.

None of which I was able to do or do easily with ask.com.

In the ads from Ask.com they have a line that goes like this:

“Google is not better, its just more popular.”

Um, I would like to respectfully disagree.