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...
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. Plus, this list has become a yearly tradition at Search Engine...
Think Ask Jeeves 1.5) Powerset launched with a smart concept: better search results than Wikipedia's own search box. Seems Microsoft has already forgotten the Sunnyvale search engine. Microsoft has agreed to buy Powerset, the semantic search engine...
Think Ask Jeeves 1.5) Powerset launched with a smart concept: better search results than Wikipedia's own search box. So the play is a "non-Google Custom Search Engine" for Wikipedia. Powerset is the much-hyped beta natural language search engine...
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. For example, a search for rock band U2 returns...
Ask Jeeves is born. It's a rant from over 10 years of watching people trot out natural language search as the "killer" solution to the current state of search, something that's happening once again with
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. The Ask homepage has recognized Memorial Day with an image and link to customized search...
Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, MSN (keep in mind ask jeeves is now ask.com). Google Paid Search: Time for the Broom, Smart-Keywords Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we've spotted but not blogged...
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. Encyclopedia search extends the "direct answers...
An Ask Jeeves "Smart Answer" combines info and links from various sources into a single location. Ask Jeeves Appoints New Executive. GoFish offers a lyrics search tool. In case of a bad link, use the publication's search facility, which most have...
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.
Now Barry over at Search Engine Roundtable spots a Cre8asite forum discussion remarking how in France, it's simply Ask France -- not Ask Jeeves France.MORE” Ask Jeeves Drops "Jeeves" Part In France - We know that Ask Jeeves has promised a...
We know that Ask Jeeves has promised a rebranding to come, with the smart money being on shortening the name to Ask and showing Jeeves the butler the door. Ask France -- not Ask Jeeves France. Ask Jeeves To
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...
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...
Ask Jeeves has offered a Smart Search box for many pop artists for some time. Google is late to the game with music search results—Ask Jeeves, MSN and Yahoo have all offered similar features for some time.
