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Ask.com's Jeeves disappears on 'gardening leave'
Talkback Ask.com has just come up with a means of keeping people's interest. I'm pretty sure Jeeve's will make a return appearance. Keep up speculation and gossip about their site until they get it reconfigured.then let a "new, revived Jeeves" come back.
[July 19, 2006, 17:38]
Ask.com's Jeeves disappears on 'gardening leave'
News Now his employers at Ask.com have decided it's time for change and have taken the decision to put him on "gardening leave" as part of a re-branding exercise. The butler's silhouette once again appeared on Ask.com's home page, linking through to...
[September 17, 2004, 17:05]
Ask.com goes back to its roots
News A major update of search engine Ask.com is set to launch on Monday. Ask.com president Scott Garrell confirmed that this is the premise that Ask was founded on in 1996 when it was Ask Jeeves, but back then the answers were hand-crafted.
[October 6, 2008, 9:26]
What Women Want (to Ask.com)
Blog So Ask.com is reinventing itself as a women's search site. Perhaps I'm just being a stupid male here, but.why? What do women search for that a pan-gender search engine cannot provide? Please, if someone knows, do tell.
[March 5, 2008, 16:23]
What Women Want (to Ask.com)
Blog Comment First, they were AskJeeves (http://www.squirrelnet.com/search/AskJeeves.asp). Then Ask. Now AskForWomen (my own title). So many changes. Too bad they didn't stick around as AskJeeves. Given the approaching semantic web, it could have been a nice...
[March 8, 2008, 2:51]
Ask.com's Jeeves disappears on 'gardening leave'
Talkback i think u should keep jeeves but what u said about not being able to find pages was true and yesterday when i was trying to find somthing on presidents it kept saying none of the pages could be found soo i also agree that u should fix that but...
[April 1, 2005, 16:17]
Ask.com's Jeeves disappears on 'gardening leave'
Talkback iappreciate everything I found answers to with the help of Jeeves. I hope he comes back to visit after he's done with his gardening work.
[April 7, 2006, 4:09]
Ask.com's Jeeves disappears on 'gardening leave'
Talkback Jeeves has always been helpful, but are you sure he comin back? I hope so because hes soo helpful, to kids aswell.the ajkids website says jeeves has retired and on a cruise but that makes me think he's dead?
[March 20, 2006, 16:46]
What Women Want (to Ask.com)
Blog Comment I suspect harpless is right, and more. This sounds like a cheap and easy way for them to focus the advertisements a little better. Lots of potential benefit to the search provider, but is it a benefit to the user as well?
[March 6, 2008, 6:33]
What Women Want (to Ask.com)
Blog Comment move to focus on female users smacks of a need to find a positioning that is tenable.in a google-dominated search market with the risk that no's 2 and 3 will merge, Ask risks being squeezed out of the market.
[March 6, 2008, 9:05]
What Women Want (to Ask.com)
Blog Comment Meanwhile, startups like Mahalo are finding success in the 'human powered' search niche that ask left behind! James, they actually invested £80m and sold for £1m? what a disaster, I would have kept my stake, even if it meant the company going into...
[March 6, 2008, 18:06]
What Women Want (to Ask.com)
Blog Comment James, I think it's safe to recommend that Chalton/Granada stick to TV, this internet thing just isn't for them!
[March 7, 2008, 19:20]
What Women Want (to Ask.com)
Blog Comment Simple women are taking over the world.lol
[March 6, 2008, 18:13]
What Women Want (to Ask.com)
Blog Comment In Ask Jeeves, they both invested real money and virtual cash via broadcast ad time on their channels - two years later they sold their stake for £1.8m. Not sure whether they would have got more for it now - IAC are the current owners, they...
[March 7, 2008, 13:45]
What Women Want (to Ask.com)
Blog Comment Add me to that list of 'Stupid males'! Maybe the plan is to morph into a content portal much like Yahoo but for women. My guess is they would leave search as it is, but provide news feeds and other women focused content alongside it.
[March 5, 2008, 17:34]
Jeeves gets an e-commerce girlfriend!
News Over the past six months, sites such as etown.com have been featuring "AskIda", a product search service that Ask Jeeves has been selling as part of its business solutions. But, starting this Monday, the company's Web site, Ask.com, fronted by...
[November 6, 2000, 9:29]
How search engines compare on privacy
News The answers suggest that, based on the questions asked, Ask.com was the most protective of user privacy. In the last few months, the search-engine business has experienced its own version of cut-throat competition: a privacy-policy war, with Google...
[August 13, 2007, 16:36]
Would you work for an Internet start-up now?
News Before accepting a dot-com job, ask if the company is currently profitable. There are still plenty of attractions to working for a dot-com, even if the decision is a bit more complicated than it used to be.
[September 11, 2002, 10:02]
Ask shows Jeeves the door
News In officially becoming Ask.com, the former Ask Jeeves search site is unveiled on Monday its new main page, featuring a new logo, a simplified interface and new tools including enhanced maps and driving directions, encyclopaedia search and Web...
[February 27, 2006, 15:35]
Google gets market share boost
News Google is increasing its lead over Yahoo and Microsoft in the US Web search market while a rebranded Ask.com is inching up, according to the latest statistics from ComScore Networks. IAC Search & Media's Ask.com, which unveiled a new brand and...
[March 29, 2006, 10:30]
