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Ask Jeeves is an Internet information retrieval company founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California. The original software was architected and implemented by Gary Chevsky. The RODA Group, a venture capital firm, were early investors. Rob Wrubel joined the company as CEO in 1998 and led the company until late 2001, when he was replaced by Skip Battle. The current CEO is Steve Berkowitz. Image File history File links Ask_Jeeves_(logo). ... Image File history File links screenshot of Ask Jeeves home page taken 2. ... Image File history File links screenshot of Ask Jeeves home page taken 2. ... The success of the Google search engine was mainly due to its simple, easy-to-use, no-ad interface, and its powerful PageRank algorithm. ... Garrett Gruener is founder of Ask Jeeves. ... David Warthen was one of the founders of Ask Jeeves, an Internet information retrieval company, in 1996. ... Gary Chevsky (born 11 September 1972 in Odessa, Ukraine) is the founding architect of Ask Jeeves. ... Rob Wrubel was a CEO of Ask Jeeves from 1998 to 2001. ...

Ask Jeeves owns a variety of popular web destinations including ask.com, ask.co.uk, ajkids.com, teoma.com, excite.com, myway.com, iwon.com, bloglines.com and several others. The combined traffic to its properties places Ask Jeeves in the top ten parent web companies in the US, as rated by both comScore and Nielsen//NetRatings in September 2004. Nielsen//NetRatings is an Internet media and market research firm that conducts studies of Ad Relevance and Ad Intelligence, in addition to Internet Audience Measurement. ... September 2004 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December See also: September 2004 in sports Events Deaths in September • 27 Tsai Wan-lin • 24 Françoise Sagan • 20 Brian Clough • 18 Russ Meyer • 15 Johnny Ramone • 12 Fred Ebb • 11 Peter VII of Alexandria • 8...

The Jeeves character

Jeeves is the name of the "gentleman's gentleman" or valet (illustrated by Marcos Sorenson), supposed to be the person who fetches you the answers of any query you ask. The character is based on Jeeves, Bertie Wooster's fictional valet from the works of P. G. Wodehouse. On 23 September 2005 the company announced plans to phase out the character ^[1]. Like other engines they create "special" logos to commemorate special ocassions. For example, they offered a logo to celebrate the start of the 2005 World Series. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (304x987, 76 KB)Taken from the Press Room on Ask. ... ask. ... Reginald Jeeves, here portrayed by Stephen Fry in ITVs Jeeves and Wooster series, is P. G. Wodehouses most famous character. ... P. G. Wodehouse, pictured in 1904, became famous for his complex plots, ingenious wordplay, and prolific output Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (October 15, 1881 – February 14, 1975) (pronounced as WOOD-house) was an English comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. ... September 23 is the 266th day of the year (267th in leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The 2005 World Series, the 101st playing of Major League Baseballs championship series, saw the American League champion Chicago White Sox sweep the National League champion Houston Astros 4 games to 0 in the best-of-seven-games series, winning their third championship and their first since 1917. ...

Technology and concepts

The original idea behind Ask Jeeves was the ability to answer questions asked in natural language. Ask Jeeves was the first commercial question-answering search engine for the World Wide Web. It supports a variety of user queries in plain English (natural language), as well as traditional keyword searching and strives to be more intuitive and user-friendly than other search engines. Ask Jeeves sold the same technology used on the ask.com site to corporate entities including Dell, Toshiba, and E*Trade. That part of the business was sold to Kanisa in 2002. A natural language is any language that is spoken or written and can be understood. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... A natural language is any language that is spoken or written and can be understood. ... The word Dell can refer to the following: Dell, Inc. ... Toshiba Corporation (東芝, Tōshiba) (TYO: 6502) is a Japanese high technology electrical and electronics manufacturing firm, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. ... E*TRADE NYSE: ET is a financial services company. ...

Ask Jeeves-owned Teoma search technology uses subject-specific link popularity to compute "authoritativeness" of a search result. The Teoma technology also incorporates patented click popularity techniques, originally from the DirectHit search engine, which Ask Jeeves acquired in 2000. Teoma. ...

Corporate details

Ask Jeeves stock traded on 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, ASKJ ticker was retired upon the closing of the acquisition by IAC/InterActiveCorp. IAC/InterActiveCorp trades on 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. NASDAQ MarketSite (Times Square, New York City) at night NASDAQ (originally an acronym for National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is a U.S. electronic stock market. ... NASDAQ MarketSite (Times Square, New York City) at night NASDAQ (originally an acronym for National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is a U.S. electronic stock market. ... NASDAQ MarketSite (Times Square, New York City) at night NASDAQ (originally an acronym for National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is a U.S. electronic stock market. ... IAC/InterActiveCorp NASDAQ: IACI is an American conglomerate with interests in electronic retailing, Internet and interactive media, local media services, online personals, real estate and financial services. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. ... IAC/InterActiveCorp NASDAQ: IACI is an American conglomerate with interests in electronic retailing, Internet and interactive media, local media services, online personals, real estate and financial services. ... Barry Diller at the Web 2. ...

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See also

• List of search engines

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References

1. ^  23 September 2005. "Ask Jeeves decides to axe Jeeves" at BBC News. Accessed 23 September 2005.

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