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Ask Jeeves is a meta search engine that allows people to input
questions into a search box and a results page will be provided
by Ask Jeeves with a list of relevant answers. Ask Jeeves uses results
provided by teoma who are located at - Teoma.
With the amount of advertising Ask Jeeves has done in the World's
media, the Ask Jeeves valet has now become one of the most recognised
images on the net.
The Ask Jeeves Character
Comic novelist P G Wodehouse was the man responsible for bringing
the Jeeves character to life. He wrote a series of books where the
knowledgeable and perceptive valet helped a series of English gentlemen
with life's problems.
News
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Ask Jeeves to be bought for $1.85bn
Added 23-03-2005
Search engine Ask Jeeves is to bought for $1.85bn (£970m).
An investment firm headed by US media mogul Barry Diller is going
to buy them.
Mr Diller said "Ask Jeeves has the potential to become one
of the great brands on the internet".
Adrian Cox, chief executive of Ask Jeeves UK operations hopes this
new deal will enable Ask Jeeves the 5th most queries search engine
to compete with Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft's MSN Search .
He said "We are a small player in the land of the giants,"
Ask Jeeves stops paid inclusion
Updated 03-03-2004
To compete with Yahoo's new search and Google, Askjeeves will stop
accepting advertiser for inclusion in its Web database. Instead
what paid inclusion will do is allow web sites to be indexed more
regularly in search engines. This is the same system which Yahoo
has just announched. However Google still don't require payment
for sites to be regularly daily or every 48 hours.
A statement from an Askjeeves vice president Jim Lanzone stated,
"After much testing of paid inclusion the company found that
it can negatively sway search results—producing more commercial
and irrelevant lists of Web sites, Lanzone said. Ultimately, that
hampers the search experience. We're never going to mix church and
state again," Lanzone said.
This and Yahoo's new search database could spell much more competition
for Google.
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