Jeeves Gets a New Look

News.com is reporting ( http://news.com.com/2100-1023-936065.html ) that AskJeeves has a new look -- and they do; check it out at http://www.ask.com/ .

The page is much cleaner now, with the focus on the query box and three tabs: Web Results, News Results, and Shopping Results. I did a search for "George Bush." Unfortunately the search results are not as clear as the front page. The top of the results page provides the questions that Jeeves can answer. Below that are sponsored links. (Jeeves, to their credit, DOES denote them as sponsored links.) Finally, web page results are presented.

Strangely, Ask Jeeves had no News results for "George Bush." I thought maybe the quotes confused it so I tried again with the search Pakistan. Plenty of results there, providing title of story and URL, source, and date. The news search does not provide summary, nor does it appear to allow you to sort by date. A search for George Bush, sans quotes, found plenty of results. Hmm... Ask Jeeves appears to be searching the Moreover news headlines. Isn't AltaVista already doing this?

Jeeves has also launched a "most popular" page like the Google Zeitgeist and the Lycos Top 50; it's available at http://www.jeevesiq.com/docs/about/jeevesiq.html . Here you'll find the most popular Web searches, the top news searches, and the top travel related searches for the previous week.

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