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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.   |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
May 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Excite Next To Go? Excite@Home may be the next to depart the portal playing field, given the signals it has been sending out recently... |
Search Engine Watch
June 4, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Excite Kills Magellan; WebCrawler Remains Excite@Home's Magellan search service, long abandoned by users and Excite itself, was finally put out of its misery and quietly closed about two months ago... |
The Motley Fool
March 4, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Jeeves Excites Investors The search company snaps up the name behind iWon and Excite. |
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. |
PC World
August 22, 2001
Tom Mainelli |
Excite@Home's Money Trouble Won't Disrupt Service Even if firm folds, broadband cable service is poised to continue... |
PC World
November 28, 2001 |
Excite@Home Service Could Cease Creditors seek to cut off broadband service pending Excite@Home's acquisition by AT&T... |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Excite@Home Goes Bankrupt; AltaVista Cuts Staff Two of the web's oldest search engines had more bad financial news, with Excite@Home filing for bankruptcy last Friday and AltaVista also announcing a new round of layoffs last month... |
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... |
Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Excite, NBCi Reduce Workforce Along with other search-oriented services, Excite and NBCi also cut staff in January... |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
January 7, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Excite Goes To Overture The death of the old Excite search engine happened in December, when new owners InfoSpace dropped results from the Excite crawler in favor of a page heavily dominated by paid listings from Overture... |
Search Engine Watch
July 5, 2000 |
Excite Changes Look, Results Excite has released a new look to its search results that also coincides with a new ranking system. The simple design mimics the "less is more" move that AltaVista kicked off in May with its Raging Search... |
Search Engine Watch
September 4, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Excite May Be Out; FAST Has Further Layoffs The future looks dim for Excite@Home, which operates the Excite search engine. The company has creditors calling in their loans, putting it into possible bankruptcy. Meanwhile, FAST Search has had its second round of layoffs this year... |
The Motley Fool
July 29, 2004
Tim Goh |
Questions for Ask Jeeves Internet search site Ask Jeeves drops 10% after guiding lower. |
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
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
November 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Excite Closes NewsTracker, Search Voyeur Excite is closing its NewsTracker service as of November 15, while its Search Voyeur live display feature closed last month... |
InternetNews
March 3, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Lycos Asks Jeeves Lycos and Jeeves team together to compete against the heavyweights of search: Google, MSN and Yahoo. |
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. |
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. |
InternetNews
August 10, 2005
Jim Wagner |
Excite@Home To Sell Domain Portfolio The holding company put in charge of the remains of Excite@Home is selling its 119 domain names to the highest bidder. |
The Motley Fool
June 3, 2004
Tom Taulli |
Google's Billion-Dollar Shopping List With its pending IPO, Google is about to come into a bunch of money. How might it spend some of its newfound wealth? |
The Motley Fool
January 29, 2004
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Honor Among Jeeves Paid searches continue to propel online content providers. |
Search Engine Watch
August 1, 2005
Danny Sullivan |
New Ask Jeeves Sponsored Listings Program Lets More Advertisers Buy Direct Ask Jeeves unveiled a new automated paid listings service today, Ask Jeeves Sponsored Listings, that will allow anyone to purchase ads directly on the Ask Jeeves network. |
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 3, 1999 |
Excite Enlarging Index, Partnered With LookSmart In August, Excite began the first phase of an ambitious plan to enlarge its search index to 250 million web pages and improve the relevancy of its search results. The search engine also debuted new LookSmart-powered directory listings. |
Information Today
March 28, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest Scirus Search Engine Now Includes Patents... IAC/InterActiveCorp Bids for Ask Jeeves... FAST Offers Mobile Search Service... |
Search Engine Watch
March 4, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Where Are They Now? Search Engines We've Known & Loved Looks at early search engines that have died, those that have been transformed and how the new players that are no longer so young are doing. |
The Motley Fool
April 21, 2004
Rick Munarriz |
Hail to the Jeeves Online content providers continue to rock in 2004 -- just Ask Jeeves. Paid search is the place to be. |
InternetNews
April 25, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Ask Loses CEO to Microsoft Following Jeeves the butler out the door, Ask.com CEO Steve Berkowitz is headed to Microsoft. |
Search Engine Watch
February 20, 2006
Chris Sherman |
Jeeves Retires You can visit his official retirement site and cast your vote for his next career or send him best wishes. |
Search Engine Watch
October 3, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Go2Net Gets Paid Links From Ask Jeeves The paid link system run by Ask Jeeves has now expanded to appearing at the Go2Net service. |
The Motley Fool
September 21, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Ask Jeeves Shapes Up Ask.com is the newest search engine to dish up new features. But investors should realize there is still risk attached to the company as the search industry continues to evolve. |
Search Engine Watch
July 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Excite Makes Changes Excite has finished making changes to its search interface, mostly minor alterations that that service hopes will improve usability. Here's what you will find that's different... |
The Motley Fool
June 21, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Ask Jeeves Focuses The search engine concern shows even more strength in search. |
Wired
January 2002
Frank Rose |
The $7 Billion Delusion Excite@Home promised to merge the search geeks and the cablecos to become the AOL of broadband. Then the tragedy of reality set in... |
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. |
Wired
January 2002
Cory Johnson |
Tools of Self-Destruction What pushed Excite@Home into ruin? Blame it on carelessness -- or something even worse. But don't be confused: It's clear that certain financial decisions made by company board members and executives helped drive Excite@Home to destruction... |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2002
Greg R. Notess |
Dead Search Engines There have been major and significant changes in the search engine industry over the past few years, with surprising announcements almost every month. While most of the search engines' domains remain active, the actual state of the search engines is quite different... |
Search Engine Watch
August 5, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
European Search Engine News Yahoo makes paid submission mandatory for businesses in the UK and a new option for those in Italy. LookSmart UK begins powering former rival UK Plus and has launched a paid placement service. And Excite is back -- at least in some European countries, powered by FAST. |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Excite Gets Search Refinement Feature, Paid Listings Coming Excite's new "Zoom In" search refinement feature debuted on the site last month, and the service will be gaining paid listings later this month... |
BusinessWeek
April 4, 2005
Timothy J. Mullaney |
Why Second-Tier Sites May Be Worth Top Dollar With Web ad rates on the rise, more acquisitions of the likes of Ask Jeeves may be in store |
PC World
February 2002
Anne Kandra |
Consumer Watch: Surviving the ISP Shuffle What to do when your Internet service provider goes bankrupt or is bought... |
| 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 |
Search Engine Watch
February 3, 2000 |
Feb. 2000 Search Engine Briefs Brief items about new info tool Octopus, Inktomi's web size measurement, Excite enlarging its index and free internet access at AltaVista and Excite. |
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. |
Information Today
January 14, 2002 |
News Digest EBSCO Offers Kiplinger Finance & Forecasts Database... Ask Jeeves Integrates Teoma Search Results... SOFTBASE Launches on the Web... Laura Bush Announces Librarian Recruitment Initiative |
The Motley Fool
February 15, 2005
Alyce Lomax |
Is Jeeves Getting Firefoxy? Rumors abound linking Ask Jeeves and Firefox. Investors need only sit on the sidelines and wonder just how close to the browser Ask Jeeves might get. |
