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Search Engine Watch
February 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
So Long Direct Hit, Hello Teoma Say your goodbyes to the Direct Hit search engine. Direct Hit is no longer the favored child of parent company Ask Jeeves, now that the company's new baby, Teoma, is growing up...   |
Information Today
April 21, 2003 |
Weekly News Digest Ask Jeeves Upgrades Ask.com... Gale Taxonomies Now Available through Taxonomy Warehouse... EBSCO Publishing Adds Databases... |
Information Today
December 2000
Paula J. Hane |
IT Interview: Forecasting a Bright Future Knight Kiplinger, president of the Kiplinger organization and editor in chief of The Kiplinger Letter, Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine, and KiplingerForecasts.com, talked with us about the company's recent product developments... |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Ask Jeeves Acquires Teoma Ask Jeeves has purchased the Teoma search engine, which has attracted interest over recent months as a potential relevancy challenger to Google... |
Search Engine Watch
August 5, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Ask Jeeves To Carry Google's Ads A three year deal will see Ask Jeeves carrying paid listings from Google on its search properties, including Ask Jeeves-owned Teoma.com. |
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. |
Information Today
July 22, 2002 |
News Digest ProQuest Completes The New York Times Backfile Digitization... Kiplinger Licenses Content to Six Aggregators |
Information Today
September 27, 2004
Paula J. Hane |
Ask Jeeves Enhances its Flagship Search Engine The user interface is more crisp and professional, the underlying Teoma search engine has been upgraded to 3.0, local search options have been expanded, and a new MyJeeves service has been introduced. |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2002 |
Industry News Thomson Takes TOC to New York Stock Exchange... Sage No Longer Spices Up EBSCO, ProQuest... LexisNexis Expands and Contracts Its Universe... etc. |
Search Engine Watch
March 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Ask Jeeves Launches Paid Inclusion For Teoma Ask Jeeves went live last month with a beta program that allows paid inclusion into the Teoma index... |
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
February 27, 2006
Susan Kuchinskas |
Ask Says Bye to Butler Ask Jeeves rebrands to highlight new service and features. |
Search Engine Watch
April 8, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Ask Jeeves: Why Buy Interactive Search Holdings? Ask Jeeves' recent significant acquisition of Interactive Search Holdings largely unremarked amid the recent sparring between industry titans Yahoo and Google. |
Information Today
January 6, 2003 |
NewsBreaks Weekly News Digest Information Today, Inc. Acquires Streaming Media, Inc.... Ask Jeeves Eliminates Banner Ads... BrandDefense Offers Intellectual Property Protection Services |
InternetNews
March 4, 2004
Zachary Rodgers |
Ask Jeeves Makes $343 Million Acquisition In a huge deal, the second-tier search engine buys privately held Interactive Search Holdings, owner of iWon and Excite. |
Information Today
April 8, 2002
Richard W. Wiggins |
Teoma Search Engine Goes Live Teoma, the newcomer search engine that unabashedly targets industry leader Google, has officially launched its presence on the Web... |
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. |
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. |
Information Today
October 29, 2012 |
EBSCO Offers Library & Information Science Source Library & Information Science Source is a full-text resource designed to help librarians and researchers easily find the latest information in a rapidly evolving field of library and information science. |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2002
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update Changes at Altavista, Fast Search, Google, Teoma, iLor, Lycos, WiseNut, Yahoo!... |
Information Today
January 28, 2010
Barbara Quint |
EBSCO Exclusives Trigger Turmoil Major among the listings were the magazines produced by Time, Inc. as well as Forbes. The contracts for these acquisitions were exclusive to EBSCO for the library "marketspace." |
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
August 3, 2004
Parker & Rodgers |
Yahoo!, Ask Jeeves Bow Local Search Tools The news follows closely on the heels Google's own local Web search offering. |
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. |
Information Today
November 2000
Donald T. Hawkins |
Online World 2000-The End of an Era When Susan M. Klopper asked me to be one of the four panelists in the Schmoozin' with Susan: (W)Rap Session at the end of the Online World 2000 conference, I didn't know that it would be the last wrap session in the 22-year history of this event... |
Information Today
June 9, 2011
Marydee Ojala |
EBSCO Acquires H.W. Wilson -- Leaves Bronx Lighthouse Behind Both companies have been major players in the information industry for some time. It's a significant coup for EBSCO to both buy out a competitor and add features to its existing product line with this acquisition. |
Information Today
May 26, 2011 |
Corporate Employee Training Center Now Available From EBSCO EBSCO and Business & Legal Resources have signed an agreement enabling corporations and government agencies to subscribe to BLR's Employee Training Center through EBSCO. |
Searcher
August 2002
Cynthia L. Shamel |
Building a Brand: Got Librarian? Librarians need to do a better job of getting their message out (and conveying a sense of their usefulness) to the business community at large. |
Search Engine Watch
June 9, 2004
Jarboe & O'Donnell |
The Art and Science of an Effective Link Building Campaign A group of experts at the Search Engine Strategies 2004 Conference offers answers to ethical and strategic link-building and search technology questions. |
Information Today
June 3, 2013
Barbara Brynko |
The New and Improved EBSCO Information Services EBSCO relies on its network of advisory boards and trainers, discovery engineers, an EDS wiki, and a listserv to keep pace with librarians and their needs. |
InternetNews
December 15, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
Ask Jeeves Enters Desktop Search Game Ask Jeeves entered the desktop search competition with a beta version of its own service that scours users' computers. |
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. |
Information Today
May 2001
Paula J. Hane |
EBSCO Publishing Provides Integrated Serials Solutions There may still be folks out there who only associate the name EBSCO with magazine subscriptions for libraries. But EBSCO Subscription Services is just one of two divisions within EBSCO Information Services... |
ONLINE
Jan/Feb 2004
Suzanne Sabroski |
Industry News Microsoft Launches Beta Version of News Alerting Service... Open Access Gains Support... PeopleWare... etc. |
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. |
Information Today
August 9, 2010 |
EBSCO Publishing and NoveList Debut a New Interface The updated interface is designed to help librarians and their patrons find their next great read. The redesign incorporated a variety of suggestions from readers' advisory experts and librarians. |
Search Engine Watch
May 26, 2005
Sherman & Price |
Ask Jeeves Serves Up New Features Ask Jeeves is rolling out two new enhancements today that help searchers quickly focus queries and get direct answers to questions without using complex commands or advanced search tools. |
| 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
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. |
InternetNews
May 20, 2005
Tim Gray |
Jeeves Heads to Europe Search engine Ask Jeeves announced Friday it has purchased Excite Italia, the operator of Excite Europe, from Tiscali. |
Information Today
November 16, 2009
Paula J. Hane |
EBSCO Publishing Introduces Evidence-Based Monitoring Service--Sustainability Watch EBSCO plans to offer similar executive decision support tools based on proprietary, evidence-based content in additional areas. |
InternetNews
May 13, 2004
Sean Michael Kerner |
Search Engines: What's the Difference? Yahoo! Google and Ask Jeeves go toe-to-toe in frank discussion of which technology yields the best results. |
Information Today
July 14, 2003
Barbara Quint |
EBSCO Acquires Two Info Pro Databases from ITI EBSCO Publishing has acquired two abstracting services covering computers, the Internet, and information sciences from Information Today, Inc. |
Search Engine Watch
December 16, 2004
Gary Price |
Ask Jeeves Launches Desktop Search Ask Jeeves has launched a beta desktop search application, capping off a very busy year in the desktop search space. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2002
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AltaVista has introduced several listing enhancements that are available for a fee but do not change ranking... Ask Jeeves now includes Teoma results after its question and answer matches... Excite is no longer a separately built search engine... Google has continued to be very active... etc. |
The Motley Fool
June 21, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Ask Jeeves Focuses The search engine concern shows even more strength in search. |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2004
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update Ask Jeeves added indexed PDF files to its results... For Internet Explorer users, Ask added a "binoculars preview"... Gigablast has been busy expanding its database size... Google is now indexing the text content of Flash files... etc. |
The Motley Fool
July 29, 2004
Tim Goh |
Questions for Ask Jeeves Internet search site Ask Jeeves drops 10% after guiding lower. |
Information Today
March 10, 2008
Paula J. Hane |
Ask.com Scales Back to Target Its Core Customers The internet portal has plans to scale back operations, laying off around 40 people (about 8% of its total employees), and move in a new direction for its search business. |
InternetNews
February 8, 2005
Colin C. Haley |
Ask Jeeves Goes to the Blogs The search giant acquires the parent company of blog and RSS pioneer Bloglines. |
