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Ask Jeeves is an Internet information retrieval company founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen which provides a publicly-available search engine. It was rated among the top 50 web properties in 1999 by Media Metrix.
The idea behind Ask Jeeves was the ability to answer questions asked in natural language. Jeeves is the name of the "butler" (illustrated by Marcos Sorenson), supposed to be the person who fetches you the answers of any query you ask. The name comes from a famous character in the works of P.G. Wodehouse. 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 link popularity to compute "authoritativeness" of a search result. The Teoma technology also incorporates patented click popularity techniques, originally from DirectHit search engine, Ask Jeeves acquired in 2000.
Ask Jeeves stock has been trading on NASDAQ stock exchange since 1999, under the ticker symbol ASKJ..
A somewhat well known easter egg of the search engine is if one queries, "Are you gay?", Jeeves replies "Actually, I prefer the term jovial."
See also: List of search engines
External links
- ask.com - Ask Jeeves
- Ask Jeeves help page
- Ask Jeeves Weblog