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April 08, 2006Checking in With Gary Price at Ask.com
Several weeks ago Gary Price went to Ask.com, and I didn't mention it because I was buried in book. Gary used the Ask blog to give a little update. So I'll take a few minutes to note this here and...
February 06, 2006Ask Jeeves Launches Image Search
Ask Jeeves has announced that they've started their own image search engine at http://pictures.ask.com. For some things it worked really well, but for some things it was kind of disappointing. I started my search with something basic: giraffe. The last...
December 23, 2005Ask Jeeves Has Some New Language Tools
Ask Jeeves has announced in their blog that their search engine has some new language tool offerings. First up, page translation. Do a search for a non-English word -- strassen works well. You'll see that you get next to most...
November 02, 2005Ask Jeeves Updates Their Desktop Search
Ask Jeeves has announced an update of their Desktop Search product in a 'blog post at http://blog.ask.com/2005/11/new_ajds_update.html. Some new features to the search product include indexing of iTunes metadata, full Outlook Express support, and enhanced previews for Office files. I...
Continue reading "Ask Jeeves Updates Their Desktop Search" » September 27, 2005Ask Jeeves Jettisoning the Butler
Computerworld is reporting that Ask Jeeves has decided to get rid of the butler in Ask Jeeves, renaming the search engine to Ask.com or something else. It's sad that this happens after the many improvements in AJ over the years,...
August 05, 2005Ask Jeeves and The Dan Band
I'm just blogging this so I'll remember it later: Ask Jeeves is having a party at SES complete with The Dan Band. I had never heard of The Dan Band until last Tuesday when I was working late and one...
July 25, 2005What Feeds Matter
Over at the Ask Jeeves blogs they've got a fun little breakdown of what feeds matter -- that is, what feeds in Bloglines are being read by at least one person. You can see the breakdown at http://blog.ask.com/2005/07/what_feeds_matt.html . I...
May 31, 2005Ask Jeeves Goes Back to Natural Language Searching
When Ask Jeeves hit the scene lo these many years ago, they were known for natural language searching. Ask a question, get an answer, or at least a pointer to a framed page. (This was a long time ago.) Now...
Continue reading "Ask Jeeves Goes Back to Natural Language Searching" » March 28, 2005Jeeves Gets a New Bertie, Named Barry
As everybody and their cat has heard by now, Ask Jeeves ( http://www.ask.com ) has been bought. And who has bought them? Why, none other than InterActive Corp., headed by Barry Diller. IAC already owns a bunch of Internet properties...
March 15, 2005Ask Jeeves Climbs on Firefox Bus
Hey hey! The Ask Jeeves toolbar is now available for Firefox. Grab it at http://sp.ask.com/docs/toolbar/moz/index.html....
March 03, 2005Ask Jeeves Is Going to Power Lycos
Ask Jeeves and Lycos announced earlier this week that Ask Jeeves' search technology would be powering Lycos. This is effective immediately. You can read the press release at PR Newswire....
February 09, 2005Hey, Ask Jeeves Did Buy Bloglines
I heard the rumor and thought, hmm, okay. Might be interesting if it's true. Ask Jeeves to buy Bloglines. Don't have a very long-lived blog, I can't recall that they've provided any kind of RSS tools, but all right....
February 03, 2005Ask Jeeves Finally Gets Around to a Blog
Ask Jeeves finally has a blog, and I've lost my bet with myself over which search engine would be the next one with a 'blog. (I was betting either Gigablast or Vivisimo. I owe myself a peanut butter sandwich.) The...
Continue reading "Ask Jeeves Finally Gets Around to a Blog" » December 29, 2004New 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 page, which takes you to http://local.ask.com/local . The local section...
Continue reading "New Local Search Interface For Ask Jeeves" » October 02, 2004Jeeves 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 (ad clicks) to the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund....
September 21, 2004Ask 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 while Google and Yahoo are slugging it out in a...
July 23, 2004Ask 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 worries, Ask Jeeves, based in Emeryville, has initiated its most...
June 24, 2004Ask 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 Users will get 2 gigabytes of storage. This will begin...
Continue reading "Ask Jeeves Joins Gigabyte-Plus Hit Parade, Ends Site Submit" » June 21, 2004Ask 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 (called "Smart Search" by Ask Jeeves.) This feature allows you...
Continue reading "Ask Jeeves Unveils New Features, "Binoculars"" » May 31, 2004Ask 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....
April 08, 2004Ask 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 not appear to be one of those famous people --...
August 25, 2003Ask 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 Yahoo, AltaVista, etc. Smart search tools were announced in April...
January 28, 2003Teoma 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, which pops up when you enter a word that's questionable....
June 17, 2002Jeeves 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,...
September 17, 2001Ask 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 property, but it should be noted that Teoma itself is...
November 02, 2000Ask 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 audio and video files which will be available now at...
August 15, 2000Ask 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 can find the directory on the main page in the...
Continue reading "Ask Jeeves Licenses Open Directory, Open Directory Surpasses 2 Million Sites" » February 18, 2000No 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...
February 03, 2000Ask Jeeves with an accent
Did you know there was Ask Jeeves in the UK? http://Ask.co.uk/...
February 02, 2000AskJeeves 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 they could rename the search engine if it's required. I...
January 25, 2000Ask 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 what sites users visit when they use certain search terms,...
January 24, 2000Millionaire 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...
December 17, 1999AskJeeves 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 Web site: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1500306.html Bad news is that Ask Jeeves is...
November 16, 1999Jeeves 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 going out and doing wacky things like advertising on apples...
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