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Revision as of 17:16, 13 January 2004 by 24.7.15.252 (talk) (Ask Jeeves Inc. is a web-wide search engine)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Ask Jeeves is an internet information retrieval company. Ask Jeeves home page is located at http://www.ask.com. The company develops technologies for web-wide search, and competes with other search engine companies, such as Google and Yahoo.
Ask Jeeves is unqiue in that it was the first commercial question answering search engine for the world wide web. Ask Jeeves supports a variety of user queries in plain English (natural language) and claims to be more intuitive and user-friendly than other search engines.
Ask Jeeves-owned Teoma search technology is unique in that it uses subject-specific popularity to compute "authoritativeness" of a search result.
For more information on Ask Jeeves, visit their help page at http://static.wc.ask.com/docs/help/index.html