Yes, Ask has joined Jeeves in retirement, officially bowing out of the search business last month in favor of concentrating on the question and answer service they returned to in July. No he is not joining Jeeves in retirement, he said "I want to...
Think Ask Jeeves 1.5) Powerset is the much-hyped beta natural language search engine that the metaphor-challenged mainstream media call the Google Killer. That doesn't mean natural language search or Powerset can kill Google, or even commit assault...
Think Ask Jeeves 1.5) So the play is a "non-Google Custom Search Engine" for Wikipedia. That doesn't mean natural language search or Powerset can kill Google, or even commit assault and battery on Google.
The quirky, attention-getting billboards proclaiming that "The algorithm killed Jeeves," or "The algorithm is from Jersey" have been stirring up conversation in the industry, not all of it positive. Ask.com has stepped up its game, launching a new...
Ask Jeeves is born. Google Zeitgeist or from Ask IQ or from I'm also already put off by the fact that "natural search" will be the advanced technique that's going to have you beat Google, despite the fact you've got nothing to analyze and the...
There's a lot of nuance in understanding search and the more we share, the better for the engines, users, and search marketers.You made the decision last year to change your brand from Ask Jeeves to Ask and retire the butler.
Smart Answers really seems like a throwback to the past with Ask(Jeeves) having started life as a directory of answers to approximately 200,000 questions. Google and Microsoft apparently skipped the day for custom search, while Ask has nicely...
Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, MSN (keep in mind ask jeeves is now ask.com). I thought it would be fun to ask Google Trends which search engine, of the top four, is the most popular, in terms of search volume. Google Paid Search: Time for the Broom, Smart...
Then again, that search also points out an Ask Jeeves failure. For the record, in my searching today, Google and Yahoo list both the old and new blog (in that order), while MSN gets the new one first, then the old one further down (though it's...
As I reported last week, the Jeeves character has officially been retired in an effort at rebranding the search engine to more aggressively compete with market share leaders Google, Yahoo and MSN. Ask also says that with the smart answers I...
An Ask Jeeves "Smart Answer" combines info and links from various sources into a single location. Ask Jeeves Appoints New Executive. Of course, other music info databases (that likely license Gracenote data) like Yahoo Audio Search, Google Music...
Although we've blogged many times about search engines becoming answer engines for some types of queries with a variety of tools and services including Google "Q&A", MSN "Instant Answers", Ask Jeeves "Smart Answers", and Yahoo Wikipedia shortcuts...
Google, and MSN Search get more involved in the direct answer space (Y and G have offered some search shortcuts for several years) while Ask Jeeves (they've been offering Smart Answers since 2003) continued to develop and more of them.
WebmasterWorld Back Among The Spiderable - WebmasterWorld, which banned Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask Jeeves and other search spiders last month, is now allowing them back in and thus returned to the land of the living, in terms of being listed with...
Ask Jeeves offers up Smart Answers with info about and links about: Christmas ||| Hanukkah ||| Kwanzza. Google places special festive borders around AdWords on web results pages for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzza, and some related holiday words.
I think Ask Jeeves makes great use of several sources including one of my all-time favorite web reference databases, AllMusic.com as a part of their Smart Search box. Here are some odds and ends, an opinion or two, and lots of links to a few...
Google is late to the game with music search results—Ask Jeeves, MSN and Yahoo have all offered similar features for some time. Ask Jeeves has offered a Smart Search box for many pop artists for some time.
It was called Answer Point and came from Ask Jeeves. Ask Jeeves' AnswerPoint operated from early 2000 through May '02. Postscipt: Well, it seems the Jim Lanzone from Ask Jeeves reads his email on the weekend.
Ask Jeeves Adds Multimedia Search - Ask Jeeves has announced a content licensing agreement with GoFish to provide multimedia content in search results. Jeeves says that additional integration of GoFish content will be "ongoing.
Ask Jeeves' product search is powered by PriceGrabber. Ask Jeeves Smart Answers Timeline. By contrast, AOL, Ask Jeeves and MSN all have major partnership agreements with other services. Google and Yahoo are continuing to develop and enhance their...
