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AskJeeves is the name of a popular search engine from 1995 to 2006. Although the AskJeeves search engine still exists, it's title has been shortened to just Ask.com. The AskJeeves service represented a text-based search engine that encouraged users to enter questions instead of search terms. Although the Ask service has seen its share... more »
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Ask.com (or Ask Jeeves in the United Kingdom) is a search engine started in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California. The original search engine software was implemented by Gary Chevsky from his own design. Chevsky, Justin Grant, and others built the early AskJeeves.com website around that core engine. Three venture capital firms, Highland Capital Partners, Institutional Venture Partners, and The RODA Group were early investors. Ask.com is currently owned by InterActiveCorp under the NASDAQ symbol IACI.
History
Ask.com was originally known as Ask Jeeves, where "Jeeves" is the name of the "gentlemans personal gentleman", or valet, fetching answers to any question asked. The character was based on Jeeves, Bertie Woosters fictional valet from the works of P. G. Wodehouse.
The original idea behind Ask Jeeves was to allow users to get answers to questions posed in everyday, natural language, as well as traditional keyword searching. The current Ask.com still supports this, with added support for math, dictionary, and conversion questions.
In 2005, the company announced plans to phase out Jeeves. On February 27, 2006 the character disappeared from Ask.com.
InterActiveCorp owns a variety of sites including country-specific sites for UK, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, and Spain along with , Teoma (now ExpertRank. Retrieved on May 11, 2009.), Excite, MyWay.com, iWon.com, Bloglines and several others. On June 5, 2007 Ask.com relaunched with a new, simpler 3D look., Techcrunch, 2007-06-04. Retrieved on June 5, 2007
On May 16, 2006, Ask implemented a "Binoculars Site Preview" into its search results. On search results pages, the "Binoculars" let searchers capture a sneak peak of the page they could visit with a mouse-over activating screenshot pop-up., read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ask.com
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