Ask.com (or Ask Jeeves in the United Kingdom) is a search engine started in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California. The original software was implemented by Gary Chevsky from his own design. Three venture capital firms, Highland Capital Partners, Institutional Venture Partners, and The RODA Group were early investors. Ask.com is currently owned by IAC/InterActiveCorp under the NASDAQ symbol IACI.
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News and thoughts from Ask.com and the search world.blog.ask.com/The Ask.com Blog: Thanks, Jeeves
Jim Lanzone of Ask Jeeves posted a Thanks, Jeeves blog entry at the Ask Blog. ... Jeeves Mapped Europe for Ask.com from Dan Karran's blog ...blog.ask.com/2006/02/thanks_jeeves.htmlSave Jeeves
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The Official Ask Jeeves Blog - 2005-02-03 14:50 ... Manager at Ask Jeeves, announces they launched their blog, following Google, Yahoo! and MSN. ...www.prweaver.com/blog/Ask-jeevesAsk.com (or Ask Jeeves in the United Kingdom) is a search engine started in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California. The original software was implemented by Gary Chevsky from his own design. Three venture capital firms, Highland Capital Partners, Institutional Venture Partners, and The RODA Group were early investors. Ask.com is currently owned by IAC/InterActiveCorp under the NASDAQ symbol IACI.
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Ask.com was originally known as Ask Jeeves, where "Jeeves" is the name of the "gentleman's personal gentleman", or valet (illustrated by Marcos Sorensen), fetching answers to any question asked. The character was based on Jeeves, Bertie Wooster's fictional valet from the works of P. G. Wodehouse.
The original idea behind Ask Jeeves was to allow users to get answers to questions posed in everyday, natural language. Ask Jeeves supported a variety of user queries in plain English (natural language), as well as traditional keyword searching. The current Ask.com still supports this, with added support for math, dictionary, and conversion questions.
In 2005, the company announced plans to phase out Jeeves. On February 27, 2006 the character disappeared from Ask.com. In March 2009, Ask.com returned the character.
InterActiveCorp owns a variety of sites including country-specific sites for UK, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, and Spain along with Ask Kids, Teoma (now ExpertRank), Excite, MyWay.com, iWon.com, Bloglines and several others. As of June 5, 2007 Ask.com relaunched with a new, more simplistic 3D look.
On May 16, 2006, Ask implemented a "Binoculars Site Preview" into its search results. On search results pages, the "Binoculars" let searchers capture a sneak peak of the page they could visit with a mouse-over activating screenshot pop-up.
In December 2007, Ask released the AskEraser feature, allowing users to opt-out from tracking of search queries and IP and cookie values. They also vowed to erase this data after 18 months if the AskEraser option is not set. The Center for Democracy and Technology's positive evaluation of AskEraser differed from that of privacy groups including the Electronic Privacy Information Center who found problems such as the requirement that HTTP cookies be enabled for AskEraser to function.
On July 4, 2008 Ask.com announced the acquisition of Lexico Publishing Group, which owns Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com, which had a combined 28 million unique visitors in March, according to Lexico.
On April 20, 2009 the search engine was once again rebranded as Ask Jeeves in the UK, with a new 3D character and logo. Jeeves will not be coming back to the US in the near future due to many different reasons, but users can still see Jeeves in the US by going to 1 instead of ask.com. (2)
