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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.
From 1996 until 2006, Ask.com, a question-and-answer search engine, was known as Ask Jeeves and featured a caricature of a butler on its launch page. The name of Jeeves has also been used by other companies and services, such as the British dry-cleaning firm Jeeves of Belgravia and the New Zealand company Jeeves Tours.
New natural language-based web search engine: 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.
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 ...
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 ...
Ask Jeeves, Inc acquired Teoma on September 18, 2001 for over $1.5 million. On January 9, 2002, Ask Jeeves announced that it had integrated Teoma's search technology into Ask Jeeves. Teoma 2.0 was released on January 21, 2003, which boasted improvements to search result relevancy, additions to search tools and more advanced search functions.
[UK] Bryan Tookey has joined social media monitoring startup Brandwatch as its new COO. He joins the Brighton-based company from search engine Ask Jeeves (Ask.com) where he was the European ...
Ask.com, the search engine formerly associated with a butler named Jeeves, is running an advertisement that features a voluptuous young woman doing acrobatic moves on a stripper pole under the ...