Ever since Ask Jeeves announced they were tweaking the image search results offered by their partner Picsearch, we have suspected they were working on their own technology.
What Jeeves Was Searching For
The folks at Ask Jeeves released their top searches list and it was a list of usual suspects. They broke the list down into top news stories, top celebrity searches, top pictures, top health, top entertainment and top sports. Unfortunately, my name didn’t appear anywhere in the listagain.
Ask Jeeves What’s The Word
As IAC/InterActive’s search engine prepares to make debuts in Europe in 2006, the Ask team has implemented some new features for searchers.
Time To Grow For Ask Jeeves
The IAC/InterActiveCorp property will add about 130 more staffers to its search engine crew at Ask Jeeves.
Ask.com’s Search Expansion and the IAC’s Advertising Network
Ask.com demonstrates search growth while IAC’s emerging advertising network across its varied properties offers advertising prospects.
The Movement to Rescue Jeeves
Ya gotta love it. Someone starts a blog on a Google property to save the logo of another search engine. A former employee of “The Butler” started a blog called Save Jeeves to rescue the beloved butler character from oblivion.
Ask Jeeves Not to be Left Behind in Pay Per Click Race
Pay per click advertising is big business online. The two biggest players are Google Adwords and Yahoo’s Search Marketing (formerly known as Overture, and before that Goto.com).
Jeeves Asks For Spyware Delisting
MySearch Bar and other plugins by Ask Jeeves can arrive from third parties on a computer system without asking for permission first.
Ask Jeeves Getting Flagged As Spyware
Search engine Ask Jeeves appears to be having a world of problems with some of its software. Apparently, a number of anti-spyware firms have flagged Jeeves for some of the downloading techniques and distribution channels it chooses for its toolbars and other software.
Ask Jeeves: Its Not Easy Being Me
The future of Ask Jeeves is still largely up in the air. Though it trails quite far behind its major competitors, the arguably 4th most popular search engine is actively paving its own road through technology, advertising, and widescale integration of complementary services, making it a major player in search, more potential than kinetic at this point, and different.