Search engine Ask Jeeves has announced that they will be teaming up with the Red Cross to provide much needed relief funds to victims of the recent hurricanes. To assist with the relief effort, Ask has launched redcross.ask.com with ideas of donating funds gained from search queries.
Ask Jeeves Announces Launch of Beta Version of Ask.jp
Ask Jeeves today announced the launch of a beta version of Ask.jp, a new Japanese language Web search engine.
Ask Jeeves Teams With Citysearch
Ask Jeeves and Citysearch today announced a partnership agreement. Under the agreement, Ask Jeeves, Inc. will license Citysearch’s local content and business data to help power Smart Search results for local searches on Ask Jeeves.
Ask Jeeves Earnings Double In Second Quarter
Today, Ask Jeeves released their second quarter results. The search engine reported revenue of $60.3 million, which indicates a 136 percent increase over revenues of $25.6 million for the comparable year-ago quarter.
Ask Jeeves To Have Balloon Made
Ask Jeeves has recently told Marcos Sorensen, the artist who designed the iconic butler, to start thinking on a larger scale. Sorensen, who in recent years has been limited to designing web presentations and company shirts, has been asked to help in the design of a massive balloon, for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Sorensen would be designing the balloon in the butler’s likeness.
Ask Jeeves To Review 3m Media Account
The third largest search engine in the UK, Ask Jeeves, is set to review the 3m media account out of Media Planning Group and Profero. Previously reported in Murdok back in April, Ask Jeeves discontinued its use of banner ads on the UK search site.
Ask Jeeves Upgrades Email Storage Too
Not to be left out of all the email storage upgrade fun, Ask.com has announced that they too would be increasing the amount of email storage its customer’s receive.
Ask Jeeves Acquires Desktop Search Technology Company Tukaroo
Yesterday, June 9, 2004, Ask Jeeves filed a Form S-3 with the SEC in order to sell an additional $400 million worth of stock and securities. Today Jeeves announced the purchase of Tukaroo Inc., a company that researches and develops desktop search technology.
Ask Jeeves Files Universal Shelf Registration Statement With SEC
In an effort to offer investors up to $400 million of its common stock, preferred stock, depositary shares, debt securities and warrants, Ask Jeeves has filed a Form S-3 with the SEC. Once the SEC declares the filing effective, Ask Jeeves will be allowed to offer the requested amount of stock.
Ask Jeeves Interview
If you plan on attending Jupiter Media’s Search Engine Strategies conference in New York on March 1st thru 4th, you’ll no doubt hear a lot of buzz surrounding the future of search engine technology. With Yahoo recently switching to a new and improved Inktomi index, Google testing localized search and MSN promising to enter the foray sometime in the next twelve months, you can bet that the search engines we know today will be much improved over the next couple of years.