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| 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 (]) and strives to be more intuitive and user-friendly than other search engines. | 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 (]) and strives to be more intuitive and user-friendly than other search engines. | ||
| Ask Jeeves-owned Teoma search technology uses subject-specific popularity to compute "authoritativeness" of a search result. | Ask Jeeves-owned ] search technology uses subject-specific popularity to compute "authoritativeness" of a search result. | ||
| Ask Jeeves stock has been trading on ] stock exchange since 1999, under the ticker symbol . | Ask Jeeves stock has been trading on ] stock exchange since 1999, under the ticker symbol . | ||
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Ask Jeeves is an internet information retrieval company which provides a publicly-available search engine at ask.com. The company develops technologies for web-wide search, and competes with other search engine companies, such as Google and Yahoo!.
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) and strives to be more intuitive and user-friendly than other search engines.
Ask Jeeves-owned Teoma search technology uses subject-specific popularity to compute "authoritativeness" of a search result.
Ask Jeeves stock has been trading on NASDAQ stock exchange since 1999, under the ticker symbol askj.