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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]
Jeeves asking Mozilla for support
News Ask Jeeves and the Mozilla Foundation have begun discussions on the twin possibilities of a Firefox-based Jeeves browser and of donating Jeeves' desktop search technology to the open source group. Ask Jeeves, which made its name as a "natural...
[February 15, 2005, 11:45]
Ask Jeeves added to Russell 2000
News Search engine Ask Jeeves has been added to the Russell 2000 index. Ask Jeeves is also included in the Russell 3000 index. The index, a leading composite of small-cap stocks produced by Frank Russell Company, is watched by investment managers as a...
[July 11, 2000, 13:32]
$1.85bn Ask Jeeves sale agreed
News InterActiveCorp has agreed to a $1.85bn buyout of search engine Ask Jeeves. Ask Jeeves will now be in an even stronger position to aggressively grow market share. Ask Jeeves differs from other search engines in that it responds to plain English...
[March 21, 2005, 17:15]
Pop-ups pushed down at Ask Jeeves
News Ask Jeeves has banned pop-up advertisements from its search site, making it the latest Web operator to discontinue the ads, generally loathed by users. Ask Jeeves, which operates search sites Ask.com and Teoma.com, stopped pushing pop-up ads to its...
[October 21, 2002, 8:51]
Ask Jeeves warns of wider loss; CEO resigns
News Apparently Ask Jeeves doesn't have all the answers. Ask Jeeves shares finished off 81 cents to $9.69 ahead of the bad news. Despite all this turmoil, Ask Jeeves said it still expects to be profitable by the fourth quarter of 2001.
[December 8, 2000, 16:10]
A Year Ago: Want to win £1m? Don't Ask Jeeves
News What if Ask Jeeves could help you out on 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire'? With Jeeves pulled up in our browser and our fingers itching to type in the question, we wait for our first call. This one's a little tricky because Jeeves pulls up a site...
[January 24, 2001, 6:02]
Ask Jeeves Toolbar review
Reviews We had no trouble installing the Ask Jeeves Toolbar; after downloading it, the toolbar installed itself in less than a minute. The Ask Jeeves Toolbar gives you the standard arsenal of searches, including a full Web search, the current site only...
[January 7, 2005, 14:20]
Ask Jeeves gets new chairman
News Ask Jeeves, the Web search service with a human touch, said Thursday it has appointed cofounder Garrett Gruener as chairman. Ask Jeeves operates a sister site in the UK, AskJeeves.co.uk. The site has suffered its share of dot-com gloom, with the...
[January 12, 2001, 10:43]
Cash injection for Ask Jeeves
News Ask Jeeves is one of the fastest growing search tools on the Internet.
[December 6, 1999, 13:28]
Ask Jeeves takes Firefox plunge
News Ask Jeeves on Tuesday made a Firefox version of its toolbar available for download. Ask Jeeves, which already had the toolbar for Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, said the toolbar would allow users of the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox web...
[March 17, 2005, 15:30]
Ask.com's Jeeves disappears on 'gardening leave'
News Internet butler Jeeves -- star of eponymous search engine Ask Jeeves -- has gone missing, leaving many to wonder where he's gone and when or if he will be back. Jeeves has come in for some stick over the years for returning results which often left...
[September 17, 2004, 17:05]
Ask Jeeves buys Direct Hit
News Search company Ask Jeeves will acquire Direct Hit Technologies in a deal worth around $507m (£314m). The deal calls for Ask Jeeves to exchange 5.12 million shares, approximately 12 percent of the company, for Direct Hit.
[January 25, 2000, 14:22]
Ask Jeeves dumps banners
News Ask Jeeves is dropping banner ads from its flagship search site and will instead rely on paid sponsorships and other "targeted" advertising for revenue, the company said Monday. Though we're removing banners from Ask.com, search marketing remains a...
[January 6, 2003, 15:44]
Ask Jeeves renews international quest
News Ask Jeeves on Monday unveiled a Japanese Web site, the search company's first international venture in four years. The fifth-largest search site in the United States has formed a joint enterprise with Tokyo-based software company Transcosmos to...
[August 24, 2004, 8:20]
Ask Jeeves expands reach
News Ask Jeeves said on Thursday that it is buying Interactive Search Holdings, owner of several destination sites including iWon.com, Excite.com and MyWay.com, for about $343m (£188m) in cash and stock. Under the terms of the deal, Ask Jeeves will...
[March 4, 2004, 15:40]
Ask Jeeves finds his voice
News Those that think Ask Jeeves is just a search engine have been missing the boat on 40 percent of the company's business. Instead, Jeeves offers an e-business package to the corporate community for assisting customers and partners called the Ask...
[March 7, 2000, 6:29]
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 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]
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]
