Music and Arts Calendar
Peoria Journal Star
By Jeeves," 7:30 p.m. Oct. 17-18 and 23-25 and 2:30 p.m. Oct. 19, Corn Stock Theatre, 1700 N. Park Road. Admission: $14/adults and $10/students with ID. Call 676-2196. "Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon," YouTheater performance, 10 a.m. and 12:15...
Stewart stock woes persist
Baltimore Sun
Among those under scrutiny are Internet high-flyers such as Ask Jeeves, Priceline.com , Prodigy Communications, TheStreet.com and Webvan. Some of these businesses also are being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission, law en...
Ask.com raises questions over Google's power
Times Online
Ask.com, which came out of the Ask Jeeves brand, is returning to its core customers after toying with an appeal to more technology-savvy users. Ask specialises in providing “smart answers” directly on the search ranking page to customers wh...
How money stopped mattering for Dragons' Den mogul James Caan
Daily Telegraph
I got him twelve years ago and he’s my Jeeves. I’d seen Arthur with Dudley Moore in it and I just thought ‘I want one of those.’ He used to work at the Royal Household so you should see the way he folds and packs shirts, with tissue ...
Ask.com revamps search for speed, relevancy
MSNBC
It is the latest in a long line of overhauls for the search engine once known as Ask Jeeves. "It wasn't sexy work, but it needed to be done," Safka said. Ask sped up search result download times by 30 percent by doing several things, Safka ...
High School Musical. Resistance is futile
Times Online
I love it like I love Jeeves and Wooster or a pot of tea. Rather than being, as critics would claim, a bloodless bastardisation of the once-proud musical genre, the films' forebear is clearly the Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney Babes in Arms fra...
Search specialist Ask given a facelift
Techradar.com
Search specialist Ask has unveiled the newest version of its homepage insisting that it offers faster, more relevant searches – with a UK version arriving on 20 October. Ask, formerly Ask Jeeves before it killed off its butler logo, has put...
Ten of the best mistaken identites
Guardian Unlimited
Then Gussie himself arrives, with Jeeves as his valet. It is all designed to save Gussie's engagement to Madeline Bassett. Aunts and rival suitors are confused into submission. She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith The comedy's hero, Ma...
Hakia and Ask release search redesigns, in fresh bid against Google
Venturebeat.com
Oddly, the change Ask is making harkens back to its origins as Ask Jeeves, a comic butler that tried (and usually failed) to give sensible answers to search queries posed as questions. While thankfully leaving Jeeves to rest in peace, Ask i...
Ask.com upgrade to add improved relevance, speed
Computerworld
In the mid to late 1990s, before the rise of Google, Ask.com -- then called Ask Jeeves -- was a leading search engine, along with others like Altavista and WebCrawler. After the dot com bubble burst, Ask Jeeves de-emphasized its consumer se...
