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Ask.com was originally known as Ask Jeeves, "Jeeves" being the name of a "gentleman's personal gentleman", or valet, fetching answers to any question asked. The character was named after Jeeves, Bertie Wooster's valet in the fictional works of P. G. Wodehouse. The original idea behind Ask Jeeves was to allow users to get answers to que…
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After a spectacular initial public offering (IPO) on the stock market that rocketed from $14 to $190.50 a share, Ask Jeeves became a casualty of the search engine wars of the early 2000s....
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Ask Jeeves lasted until roughly 2005, when it was rebranded as Ask.com. The company attempted to invade Yahoo Answers' territory by focusing on a real-person Q&A site, but Ask.com ended its...
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WebMarch 3, 2023 Saved Stories It was a simpler time. A friend introduced us, pulling up a static yellow webpage using a shaky dial-up modem. A man stood forth, dressed in a dapper black pinstriped...
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Ask Jeeves guessed at a Boolean search for its users when they entered natural language terms — as Google does now — but guessing at a Boolean term for a user is much less powerful than a user ...
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Ask Jeeves was once a large player in the search engine market alongside such names as AltaVista and Lycos, but Google’s dominance has left few competitors. IAC’s extensions for Google’s …
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Web search engine Ask.com is bringing back its butler Jeeves in a bid to challenge Google in the search engine stakes. It was back in 2006 when askjeeves.com changed to the simpler moniker …
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March, 2005: IAC announces plans to buy Ask Jeeves April, 2005: Nothing significant happens for almost a year February, 2006: In a landmark move to improve …
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You can't ask Jeeves, the butler that made the search engine now known as Ask.com famous in the late '90s. But in a bid to engage more users, Ask is returning to its question-and-answer roots by ...
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Ask.com
Ask.com is a question answering–focused e-business founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California. The original software was implemented by Gary Chevsky, from his own des…... Read more