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. However, those questions asked on Ask.com are from users...
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. The type of results that will be returned for a...
Ask Jeeves is born. Answers.com bought the company last year, and it remains running. I was unimpressed, especially when I went away from the canned answers that "proved" its superiority. Ask had more relevant result NOT from natural language...
Jim Lanzone demoed the site as part of Barry Diller's keynote.On the home page that day was a prominent "Welcome to the new Ask.com" link which gave an overview of what was new.We also made notes about Jeeves' retirement available easily in our...
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. Our friend Gary Price wrote in to explain the Memorial Day reference at Ask is part of their...
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. Encyclopedia search extends the "direct answers...
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...
Ask Jeeves has released their own internally built database of images and is no longer using imagery provided by PicSearch to power Ask Jeeves Picture Search. Image Search accounts for 16% of all searches on Ask Jeeves.
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.
Word from Oakland today that Ask Jeeves has just added page translation, easier synonym lookups and definitions with pronunciations. Improved Dictionary Smart Answers Let's hope 2006 as is strong of a year for AJ's Smart Answers as 2005 was.
Ask Jeeves offers up Smart Answers with info about and links about: Christmas ||| Hanukkah ||| Kwanzza. Several of the large web engines are offering special holiday goodies from smart answers to holiday questions to logos to holiday borders around...
Ask Jeeves has offered a Smart Search box for many pop artists for some time. Ask Jeeves offers the same degree of coverage as Yahoo, with results returned for all of the artists mentioned above. Google is late to the game with music search results...
Ask Jeeves' AnswerPoint operated from early 2000 through May '02. It was called Answer Point and came from Ask Jeeves. The service had its own logo and used the slogan: "The Ask Jeeves Answer Point is the place where you can ask and answer questions.
Postscript: Ask Jeeves in July launched Web Answers that mines or extracts the open web for "answers" in real-time. Word from Answers.com that they've acquired an "answer extraction" database that utilizes NLP (natural language processing...
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 Smart Answers Timeline. By contrast, AOL, Ask Jeeves and MSN all have major partnership agreements with other services. Ask Jeeves' product search is powered by PriceGrabber. Click here to learn more about becoming a member.
Major search engines other than Google (Ask Jeeves, MSN and Yahoo) were all banned for more than 60 days before this latest move. But people seeking answers to things it has answers to give are no longer going to be finding it.
Btw, Ask Jeeves has offered a movie "Smart Search" on web results pages since May of 2004. These Smart Answers are available for both new films as well as many cinema classics. The Smart Answer box often contains an image of the movie poster and...
Ask Jeeves has announced a content licensing agreement with GoFish to provide multimedia content in search results. Jeeves says that additional integration of If found, multimedia results will be presented in "Smart Answers" at the top of search...
Yahoo, Google and Ask Jeeves offer information about where a flight is enroute and when it will be landing. Ask Jeeves This is different than the flight info "shortcuts," "Smart Answers," and so on that most of the major web engines, the airlines...
