Google GOOGL may be celebrating its 25 th anniversary today. But who remembers the pre-Google world of search? As in such once-prominent search engines as AltaVista, Excite, Lycos, WebCrawler and even ...
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What Happened To Ask Jeeves?
At the risk of alienating younger audiences, take a moment and ask yourself how you would have found the answer to this headline in the 90s. You might've consulted an online butler named Jeeves who, ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Backed by a new owner known for shaking up the status quo, Ask Jeeves Inc. is introducing an upstart advertising network powered by its own search engine -- a move likely to rankle ...
Ask.com relaunched earlier this year with new features and a new logo as part of an attempt to shake off its old Ask Jeeves image. Now it also has a new chief executive--Jim Lanzone, who was promoted ...
Ask Jeeves Inc. will follow the trend among providers of free Web-based e-mail service of boosting in-box capacity, by increasing storage to 125MB for the e-mail services it offers from its My Way, ...
I used a search engine for the first time in 1996. I don't remember what I searched for, but I remember it felt like magic. I was a fifth grader in rural North Idaho, huddled around my school's only ...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — You won't be able to ask Jeeves, the butler who 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 ...
Search engine AskJeeves.com has rebranded itself as Ask.com, ditched its namesake butler icon and added several new search tools in an effort to woo more users, Barry Diller, chairman and CEO of Ask ...
Ask Jeeves Monday will unleash its most aggressive attempt in years to increase usage of its search engine, rolling out a broad set of new and improved features and a drastic rebranding of the service ...
NEW YORK -- Assuming your company's name isn't a verb synonymous with looking things up online, how do you get Web surfers to not just try your search engine, but also frequent it? For Oakland-based ...
Search engine Ask Jeeves announced today that it is acquiring Interactive Search Holdings - which counts bankrupt site excite.com and web-sweepstakes company iWon.com among its stable of websites - ...
Ask Jeeves saw its market value sliced in half Friday after a negative pre-announcement, and news that CEO Rob Wrubel will step down. Analysts downgraded the stock due to the fourth quarter shortfall, ...
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