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Ask.com (originally known as Ask Jeeves) is a question answering –focused e-business founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California . The original software was implemented by Gary Chevsky, from his own design. Warthen, Chevsky, Justin Grant, and others built the early AskJeeves.com website around that core engine.
Here's a look back at three search engines that Google gobbled up nearly 20 years ago. Ask Jeeves / Ask.com. Ask Jeeves was a character-driven search engine, if ever there was one. Founded in 1996 ...
Ask Jeeves, a natural language web search engine, that aims to rank links by popularity, is released. It would later become Ask.com. September 15: New web search engine: The domain Google.com is registered. Soon, Google Search is available to the public from this domain (around 1998). 23: New web search engine (non-English)
Excite continued to operate until the Excite Network was acquired by Ask Jeeves (now Ask.com) in March 2004. Ask Jeeves promised to rejuvenate iWon and Excite, but was not able to. Ask Jeeves management became distracted, according to the East Bay Business Times, first by a search feature arms race with Google and Yahoo!, and then by its merger ...
The story goes that after Excite CEO George Bell rejected Page and Brin’s $1 million price for Google, Khosla talked the duo down to $750,000. But Bell still rejected that. Whoops. As of today ...
Search engines, including web search engines, ... Direct Hit Technologies (acquired by Ask Jeeves in January, 2000) Getit Infoservices Private Limited; Google Answers;
Scroogle. SearchMe. Sesam (search engine) Singingfish. Soso (search engine) Speechbot. Sphere (website) Sputnik (search engine)
Direct Hit Technologies, Inc. was a Boston -based search engine company that provided search engine services to major web portals and operated a public search engine at directhit.com. [1] Founded in April 1998 by Gary Culliss and Mike Cassidy, the Direct Hit search engine utilized the anonymous searching activity of millions of web searchers to ...