Ask.com Launches Major Updates
Its two main ingredients are algorithms Ask had been using separately: the user path analysis-based Direct Hit, acquired in February 2000, and the link analysis-based Teoma, acquired in September 2001.
Its two main ingredients are algorithms Ask had been using separately: the user path analysis-based Direct Hit, acquired in February 2000, and the link analysis-based Teoma, acquired in September 2001.
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Jeeves, Teoma, Rutgers, IBM and Apostolos Gerasoulis. Today Asks Teoma Who? The other day, Ask.com was featured in a USA Today article named What's Teoma, you ask? Teoma. Yes, a weird title for a USA Today post, in where USA Today goes into the...
Yes, a weird title for a USA Today post, in where USA Today goes into the past of Teoma, Ask Jeeves, Teoma, Rutgers, IBM and Apostolos Gerasoulis. The other day, Ask.com was featured in a USA Today article named What's Teoma, you ask?
In these TV campaigns, you may notice that one of the founders of Teoma, the technology being used to power Ask.com, Apostolos Gerasoulis will be the main star. ClickZ reports that Ask.com will be launching its second set of "post-Jeeves campaigns...
In these TV campaigns, you may notice that one of the founders of Teoma, the technology being used to power Ask.com, Apostolos Gerasoulis will be the main star.MORE” Ask.com Second TV Blitz Stars Chief Scientist Guru, Apostolos Gerasoulis - ClickZ...
For Teoma: A different twist on link analysis, but more important, a new search voice worth taking seriously -- and Ask Jeeves did, buying it later that year. Meanwhile, Ask fails to capitalize on the new technology and buys Teoma the following...
Yang was a co-inventor of Ask.com's search technology, Teoma, now known as ExpertRank.MORE” So in reality, the loss of the Jeeves character has been fulfilled by the real deal, Gary Price. When I saw Jim Lanzone, from Ask.com, at SES NYC a month...
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Teoma.com now redirects to Ask Jeeves. Ask has also announced that the Teoma search engine has been retired. The Teoma search technology is being rebranded as ExpertRank, something we predicted back in November.
The AJ Zoom feature launched last year (similar to what Teoma has offered for many years) offers the ability to narrow or broaden your search and in some cases also pulls out related names. Ask Jeeves
Ask Jeeves image search is doing all this, but it's also applying its Teoma ranking system to find sites that have a broad representation of images and topics, and identify those that have the greatest degree of "authority" for a particular topic...
While Clever never made a public appearance, many of the concepts it offers are what power the Teoma/Ask Jeeves search technology. It features an article by Karen Schneider, the director of the Librarians' Internet Index, the wonderful and...
At that point in Ask's turnaround we simply had to make choices, so we shut AnswerPoint down (among other things) to focus our energy on things like Teoma and Smart Answers. Postscipt: Well, it seems the Jim Lanzone from Ask Jeeves reads his email...
Trivia Answer: Teoma was developed at Rutgers Univesity led by Dr. Teoma's technology now powers the AJ database and Dr. Apostolos Gerasoulis and purchased by Ask Jeeves in 2001. The Deal.com's Lou Whiteman (via News.com), offers a profile of...
Ask Jeeves won't comment on what this means, but Gary reminded me that Teoma means expert" in Gaelic. Teoma's long been the secret sauce for Ask, and ExpertRank sounds like a rebranding of that (rather than some new tech) to help Ask Jeeves...
Most in the search industry think highly of the Teoma search technology. Now that Ask Jeeves is part of aggressive online powerhouse InterActive Corp.what's next for the search engine and its various services?
Whether Bloglines expands to include Teoma-like search capabilities, or Ask pulls in Bloglines' RSS prowess remains to be seen. Bloglines, owned by Ask Jeeves, is both a feed search tool and a feed reader/aggregator.
Meanwhile, ads for Ask Jeeves over here in the UK keep going on about "Ask Jeeves With New Teoma Technology," which makes me laugh, given that Ask has owned Teoma's technology for several years. from the MSN Search WebLog talks about MSN
Advanced Search Tips (via Ask-owned Teoma, but they work on Ask) Ask Jeeves Smart Search & Honestly, I didn't miss leaving behind the DOS command line and getting all GUI. But there are times when I'll still dig out the command prompt window on...