Ask.com is a search engine. It is a business division of IAC Search & Media, and was founded 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.
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The Ask.com Blog
News and thoughts from Ask.com and the search world.blog.ask.com/The Ask.com Blog: Welcome, Bloglines!
Ask Jeeves announced officially they have bought the blog company Bloglines. ... Go to Ask Jeeves blog and read the post, Welcome, Bloglines! ...blog.ask.com/2005/02/welcome_bloglin.htmlThe Official Ask Jeeves Blog
The Official Ask Jeeves Blog - Search Engines News. ... Manager at Ask Jeeves, announces they launched their blog, following Google, Yahoo! and MSN. ...www.prweaver.com/blog/2005/02/03/123-the-official-ask-jeeves...Ask Jeeves — 4WebRESULTS.COM
4WebResults is an Internet Marketers Blog that covers topics of search engine ... AdSense Analytics Apple Ask Jeeves BlackBerry Blog Creation and Promotion ...4webresults.com/blog/topics/Ask%20JeevesAsk Jeeves in Spanish version
Ask Jeeves in Spanish version - Search Engines News. ... AskJeeves Blog : ¡Jeeves habla español! and Ask Jeeves blog in Spanish ...www.prweaver.com/blog/2005/04/07/172-ask-jeeves-spainAsk.com is a search engine. It is a business division of IAC Search & Media, and was founded 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.
History
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. It supports a variety of user queries in plain English (natural language), as well as traditional keyword searching.
On September 23 2005 the company announced plans to phase out Jeeves and on February 27 2006 the character dissapeared from Ask.com. Fact: date=September 2008
Ask.com owns a variety of sites including country-specific sites for UK, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, and Spain along with Ask For Kids, Teoma (now defunct), Excite, MyWay.com, iWon.com, Bloglines and several others. As of June 5, 2007 the site relaunched with a new, more simplistic look.
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 4 July 2008 Ask.com announced the acquisition of Lexico Publishing Group, which owns Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com. Combined, the sites Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com had more than 28 million unique visitors in March, according to Lexico.
International
The company also operates localized services in UK (Ask.com UK), Germany (Ask.com Deutschland), Spain (Ask.com España), Italy (Ask.com Italia), the Netherlands (Ask.com Nederland) and Japan (Ask.jp).
Corporate details
Ask Jeeves, Inc. stock traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange from July 1999 to July 2005, under the ticker symbol ASKJ. At the time of the IPO in 1999, ASKJ had the 3rd best first-day performance in history. In 2003, it was the 51st best performing stock out of 3229 companies on the NASDAQ. The price of Ask Jeeves stock soared more than 500% throughout the course of the year. In July 2005, the ASKJ ticker was retired upon the closing of the acquisition by IAC/InterActiveCorp. IAC/InterActiveCorp trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol IACI. The IAC/InterActiveCorp deal was announced in March 2005 valuing ASKJ at $1.85 billion. IAC/InterActiveCorp is a media holding company founded and run by Barry Diller.
