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Information Today May 31, 2005 Paula J. Hane |
Ask Jeeves Hopes to Zoom Ahead of Competitors Ask Jeeves, usually seen as an also-ran to Google and Yahoo!, has just introduced some core search innovations that it says will significantly improve the relevance and speed of users' searches.  |
InternetNews May 26, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Ask Jeeves Zooms in on Relevance Ask Jeeves unleashed Zoom, a related-search tool to help searchers narrow or expand the topic, and Web Answers, which provides answers to explicit or implicit questions.  |
Search Engine Watch January 26, 2006 Chris Sherman |
Searching For a Better Image Ask Jeeves has launched a brand-new image search service, using some innovative techniques to identify high-quality pictures on the web. See how it stacks up against the competition.  |
InternetNews February 27, 2006 Susan Kuchinskas |
Ask Says Bye to Butler Ask Jeeves rebrands to highlight new service and features.  |
Search Engine Watch August 2, 2000 Danny Sullivan |
Ask Jeeves Adds Directory, Direct Hit Results Ask Jeeves has redesigned its home page and search results page. From the home page, you'll find category links just below the search box. These lead to the Ask Jeeves version of the Open Directory, where sites are ranked in order of popularity.  |
Search Engine Watch October 5, 2005 Chris Sherman |
New Features at AOL Search AOL continues to improve its web search capabilities, today adding a number of new features designed to appeal to casual searchers and power users alike.  |
Search Engine Watch February 3, 2000 |
Ask Jeeves Asks Direct Hit In a surprise move, but one that makes perfect sense, Ask Jeeves announced last week that it was acquiring Direct Hit in a $500 million stock deal.  |
Search Engine Watch December 15, 2005 Chris Sherman Gary Price |
Google Adds Music Search Feature Google has introduced a new feature that provides information about music and musical artists in response to music related search queries.  |
ONLINE May/Jun 2004 Greg R. Notess |
On The Net - Search Engine Prefixes and Shortcuts An online searcher offers tips and practical advice on efficient and effective online searching using shortcuts and prefixes.  |
InternetNews November 29, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
Google Answers Ends Its Run If you have a question for Google Answers, you better hurry up and ask it. Later this week, Google will shut down the service, which allowed people to pose questions, for a fee, in the hopes of getting the perfect answer.  |
AskMen.com January 31, 2001 Justin Becker |
How To: Use Search Engines Well, no need to feel lost anymore -- here is a map of which search engines I highly recommend, and which ones to use for specific searches. And since information is power, you'll feel like king of the world in no time...  |
Search Engine Watch November 11, 2004 Chris Sherman |
Microsoft Unveils its New Search Engine - At Last After months of speculation and two 'preview' releases, Microsoft has taken the wraps off of its new MSN search engine, the first major competitor to join the big leagues of web search in nearly a year.  |
InternetNews August 2, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Dogpile: Search Engines Don't Have Much in Common Users of the meta-search service can now see results from MSN Search in addition to results from Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves and MSN Search. As part of its announcement, Dogpile demonstrated the diversity of results across the engines.  |
Search Engine Watch October 10, 2006 Brian Smith |
A Closer Look at Ask's Smart Answers Ask.com has truly differentiated itself with the "Smart Answers" it returns for thousands of queries, offering facts, images and targeted links that respond directly to a searcher's information need.  |
The Motley Fool September 27, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Google's Got Answers.com Online reference site Answers.com extends its contract with Google to fill its website with relevant Google AdWords text ads. The deal sent Answers shares soaring.  |
Search Engine Watch August 2, 2005 Chris Sherman |
Search Engine Results Continuing to Diverge A new study suggests that the overlap between search engine results is less than it was even a few months ago, and that the voices of each engine are growing even more unique.  |
Search Engine Watch September 21, 2004 Gary Price |
Ask Jeeves Serves It Your Way It's a busy day at Ask Jeeves with the announcement of several new services and enhancements, including the launch of a new personalized search tool and a major upgrade of the company's Teoma search engine.  |
The Motley Fool December 14, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Google Steals Some Answers Google is apparently gearing up to relaunch its Google Answers; this time the Q&A offering will feel a lot more like Yahoo! Answers.  |
Search Engine Watch April 20, 2005 Chris Sherman |
Google Personalizes the Web Say goodbye to bookmarks: Google's My Search History feature automatically keeps track of web searches and every page viewed from search results by saving your "search behavior," not web pages.  |
Information Today October 8, 2007 Greg R. Notess |
Microsoft and Yahoo! Update Search In the evolution of Web searching, 2007 has become the year of multimedia integration, as major Web search engines have incorporated images and videos into the results for some searches.  |
Information Today April 22, 2002 Tara Calishain |
New Google Answers Service Raises a Few Questions of Its Own Have a burning question? Google Answers charges for the answers and has built a group of external researchers to respond to the questions...  |
Search Engine Watch June 8, 2006 Danny Sullivan |
Look Out Wikipedia, Here Comes Yahoo Answers! New stats add fuel to the idea that Yahoo Answers is perhaps becoming a social interacting phenomenon like YouTube or MySpace. A look at the service's growth and how it works.  |
Information Today April 11, 2005 Nicholas G. Tomaiuolo |
Google Unveils New Q&A Service Despite a few bugs and no search tab Google rolls out Q&A, a service providing quick answers to your questions.  |
The Motley Fool July 17, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Answers Has a Way With Words Answers is acquiring Lexico -- the parent of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com -- in an all-cash $100 million deal. Investors, take note.  |
Search Engine Watch June 4, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
New MSN Search Emerges In Beta MSN Search has released a new beta version of its service that offers a number of handy features, including upgraded spell-checking, improved query refinement and integration of information from Microsoft's Encarta Enquire reference service...  |
Search Engine Watch September 12, 2005 Andrew Goodman |
Ask Jeeves CEO: "We Are Focused on Core Search" Now that Ask Jeeves is part of aggressive online powerhouse InterActive Corp., what's next for the search engine and its various services? Ask Jeeves' CEO Steve Berkowitz discusses the company's future.  |
InternetNews November 11, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas |
MSN's Latest Search Beta Launched Microsoft's MSN released the latest version of its homegrown search technology on Thursday (beta.search.msn.com), offering multiple ways to narrow results, including providing local results and natural language search.  |
InternetNews June 8, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
MSN Testing RSS Reader MSN quietly turned on a new version of Start.com, a different take on the personalized search home page.  |
Search Engine Watch June 21, 2004 Gary Price |
Ask Jeeves Sharpens Its Focus Ask Jeeves announced several new 'Smart Search' shortcuts, along with a new page preview tool.  |
PC World September 1, 2000 Kim Zetter & Harry McCracken |
How to Stop Searching and Start Finding Tired of wading through useless search-engine results? We test 20 engines to pinpoint the ones that really deliver the goods....  |
Information Today December 4, 2006 Tara Calishain |
Google Shutters Its Answers Service Google's decision to close down Google Answers has produced a huge amount of discussion and comment from all corners of the Web.  |
Information Today November 21, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest IBM introduces public image monitoring solution... Quintura Search 1.0 makes its debut... Teragram offers direct answers to enterprises...  |
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2002 Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AllTheWeb claims it has increased the size of its database to over 2 billion fully indexed Web pages... AltaVista now really defaults to a Boolean AND... Ask Jeeves has a new, simpler design... Google has been promoting its fee-based Google Answers... etc.  |
InternetNews October 5, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
AOL Puts Its Mark on Search AOL updated its search with features that bring it on a par with rivals - but with several added twists.  |
The Motley Fool October 28, 2004 Tim Goh |
Asking Is Too Much for Jeeves An unsatisfactory conference call and disappointing forecasts send the search engine's shares tumbling.  |
| T.H.E. Journal |
FYI - Ask Jeeves Kids Teachers can now easily answer their students' difficult questions with Ask.com's site for kids, Ask Jeeves Kids (www.ajkids.com). Students can ask Jeeves just about any question from "Why is the sky blue?" to "What is the capital of North Dakota?" and get immediate answers  |
InternetNews February 28, 2005 Rob McGann |
Majority of Searchers Use Multiple Search Engines What are the most popular search engines?  |
Search Engine Watch December 7, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
What Happened To My Searches On Google? Many webmasters have found that recent changes at Google have hurt them. But does all the hue and cry over Google's recent algorithm change have any impact on searchers? There are some developments worth noting, and this article takes a Q&A approach to examine them.  |
InternetNews August 17, 2009 |
WolframAlpha Bets on Standing Out From the Pack WolframAlpha takes a different route than the big names, leveraging data sources like the Xignite financial system to focus on presenting precise answers. But does the approach have staying power?  |
Search Engine Watch November 4, 2003 Chris Sherman |
Going Shopping? Ask Jeeves for Advice As the online shopping search space continues to heat up, Ask Jeeves has entered the fray with powerful enhancements to its smart search capabilities that help in all phases of the shopping process.  |
InternetNews April 7, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Adds Answers, Augments Maps The search leader introduces new functions as features war with Yahoo and MSN rages on.  |
Search Engine Watch January 22, 2011 Dean Stephens |
Turning to Social Media & Search Engines for Smart Health Answers How health marketers can ensure consumers find answers to their most important health questions in a timely manner. No one wants to wait for hours to figure out if they need to see a doctor.  |
InternetNews August 24, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Battle for Search Share in Lower Tier The latest search engine share rankings show Google maintaining its lead over Yahoo, with upstarts gaining points.  |
Search Engine Watch January 20, 2005 Chris Sherman Gary Price |
AOL Search: Playing In the Big Leagues Now AOL is rolling out several enhancements to its core search functionality that position it as a clear contender in the battle for eyeballs between Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves and MSN Search.  |
Search Engine Watch December 5, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
In Search Of The Relevancy Figure Where are the relevancy figures? While relevancy is the most important "feature" a search engine can offer, there sadly remains no widely-accepted measure of how relevant the different search engines are. Turning relevancy into an easily digested figure is a huge, but necessary, challenge.  |
Search Engine Watch April 4, 2000 |
Search Satisfaction And Behavior Results Released Every three months, some users at the major search engines are selected randomly by NPD and asked about their visits. The results are fascinating, but they've not been available to the general public until now.
The survey is funded and conducted on behalf of the major search engines, and the results have been used for their own internal purposes....  |
InternetNews March 21, 2005 Clint Boulton |
IAC to Buy Ask Jeeves for $1.85B IAC/InterActiveCorp agrees to acquire Ask Jeeves in a deal that puts it squarely into competition with Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.  |
Search Engine Watch October 3, 2006 Rae Hoffman |
Rebranding Ask.com How do you engineer a major overhaul to your web site to increase traffic and user satisfaction? Ask.com's Senior User Experience Analyst describes the company's careful yet bold approach to its recent redesign in this wide-ranging interview.  |
InternetNews August 17, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Sizing Up the Search Competition In the Google-Yahoo rivalry, does the bigger index do a better job?  |
InternetNews December 2, 2009 |
Ask.com Reveals Top Ten Questions of 2009 Who knew so many folks go to Web to find out what time it is? But other top queries are a bit more thoughtful.  |