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December 29, 2004

New Local Search Interface For Ask Jeeves

Better late than never. Sigh. There's a new local search interface available at Ask Jeeves ( http://www.askjeeves.com .) You access it through the "Local" tab at the top of the...

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October 02, 2004

Jeeves Gets Crossy

Ask Jeeves has a fundraising site available. When you use the Red Cross / Ask Jeeves site at http://redcross.ask.com , Ask Jeeves donates 100% of all profits generated from searches...

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September 21, 2004

Ask Jeeves Kicks Out A Big Redesign

You know, everybody thinks it's Yahoo vs. Google, Yahoo vs. Google -- and eventually Yahoo vs. Google vs. Microsoft when they get around to jumping into the search wars. But...

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July 23, 2004

Ask Jeeves Parties Like It's 1999

SF Gate Article on AskJeeves. What's with the 1999 bit? How else would you describe the creation of a balloon for the Macy's parade? From the article: "Unconstrained by financial...

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June 24, 2004

Ask Jeeves Joins Gigabyte-Plus Hit Parade, Ends Site Submit

Ask Jeeves has announced that they've upped the mail storage on the email of their three portal brands -- My Way, Excite, and iWon -- and that Excite Gold...

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June 21, 2004

Ask Jeeves Unveils New Features, "Binoculars"

Ask Jeeves has unveiled both a raft of new shortcuts and a new site preview feature called Binoculars. You've probably been noticing that many search engines are offering searching shortcuts...

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May 31, 2004

Ask Jeeves Weblog

Hat tip to Library Stuff, who noticed that there's now an unofficial Ask Jeeves Weblog. This entry will not appear in the newsletter....

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April 08, 2004

Ask Jeeves Searchin' For Famous People

Ask Jeeves is now offering Famous People Search, which includes some results for famous people with a photograph, brief biography, and pointers to more information. Strangely enough PG Wodehouse does...

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August 25, 2003

Ask Jeeves Offering "Smart Answers"

Ask Jeeves ( http://www.ask.com/ ) is now offering what they're calling "Smart Search" tools for searches. From how they're described they're very similar to search shortcuts as you've seen on...

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January 28, 2003

Teoma Upgrades Its Search Engine

Teoma ( http://www.teoma.com/ ), Ask Jeeves' full-text search service, announced last week several improvements to its search service. It's now "Teoma 2.0." Teoma's improvements include a web-based spell check,...

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June 17, 2002

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...

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September 17, 2001

Ask Jeeves Buys Teoma

Natural language search engine Ask Jeeves http://www.ask.com has purchased much-talked-about search engine Teoma ( http://www.teoma.com ) for an undisclosed sum. Ask Jeeves plans to run Teoma as a separate search...

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November 02, 2000

Ask Jeeves Gets Multimedia Search

Ask Jeeves ( http://www.ask.com ) has hooked up with StreamSearch to allow for multimedia searching at Ask Jeeves. StreamSearch claims a multimedia database of over 2 million streaming and downloadable...

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August 15, 2000

Ask Jeeves Licenses Open Directory, Open Directory Surpasses 2 Million Sites

Couple of items from the Open Directory front ( http://www.dmoz.org ). Open Directory announced yesterday that Ask Jeeves has licensed Dmoz as the "primary directory" for the Web site. You...

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February 18, 2000

No X-rated Ask Jeeves

Ask Jeeves is scuttling its plans to provide an x-rated answer service. From CNET: http://news.cnet.com /news/0-1005-200-1553365.html...

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February 03, 2000

Ask Jeeves with an accent

Did you know there was Ask Jeeves in the UK? http://Ask.co.uk/...

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February 02, 2000

AskJeeves to be sued?

Uh-Oh. Is Ask Jeeves being threatened with legal action by the literary agents of the late PG Wodehouse? BBC News has a story about this, along with speculation about how...

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January 25, 2000

Ask Jeeves scores a Direct Hit

HUGE NEWS: Ask Jeeves is purchasing Direct Hit. Ask Jeeves, as you probably know, uses natural language searching technology at its site, http://www.askjeeves.com . Direct Hit ( http://www.directhit.com/ ) tracks...

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January 24, 2000

Millionaire Jeeves

Could Ask Jeeves help you win Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Well, maybe -- but maybe not: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2425612,00.html...

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December 17, 1999

AskJeeves Reports

Plenty of AskJeeves.com in the news today -- good news and bad news. The good news is that AskJeeves is teaming up with Deja.com to offer Deja ratings on its...

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November 16, 1999

Jeeves is Hot

Ask Jeeves ( http://www.askjeeves.com ) is hot. And they got hot without putting customized news and weather on their front page or turning themselves into a portal. In fact, they're...

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