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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
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. |
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
April 25, 2005
Paula J. Hane |
Search Engines Roll Out New Personalization Options Several major search engines, such as Ask Jeeves and Yahoo!, are offering personalization upgrades to retain searchers. |
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
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
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
InternetNews
February 27, 2006
Susan Kuchinskas |
Ask Says Bye to Butler Ask Jeeves rebrands to highlight new service and features. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
August 25, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Search Engine Executive Roundtable, Part 1 What's happening in search today, and where is it headed? Top honchos from AOL Search, Ask Jeeves, MSN Search and Yahoo offer answers to these and other wide-ranging questions. |
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. |
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
July 21, 2004
Christine Churchill |
Meet The Crawlers Representatives of Yahoo, Google, Ask Jeeves and Looksmart offer an inside glimpse of recent developments at the major search engines. The general focus for the major search engines continues to be on the user experience. |
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. |
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
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. |
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. |
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. |
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
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
January 13, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo & MSN Closing the Google Gap While Big G continues to maintain its leadership position in the eyes of web searchers, a new study finds that Yahoo, MSN Search and Ask Jeeves have all made significant improvements over the past year and are narrowing Google's mindshare advantage. |
InternetNews
August 17, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Sizing Up the Search Competition In the Google-Yahoo rivalry, does the bigger index do a better job? |
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
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... |
InternetNews
December 14, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
Search Industry Gains Clout Search engines are now recognized as full-fledged media companies and search engine marketing is no longer a cottage industry. |
Search Engine Watch
January 19, 2006
Chris Sherman |
Survey: Google, Yahoo Still Favorites in North America For the second year running, a Keynote Systems study says Google provides the most satisfying search experience among North American users, despite competitive maneuvering from all of the other major search services. |
The Motley Fool
March 4, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Jeeves Excites Investors The search company snaps up the name behind iWon and Excite. |
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. |
InternetNews
November 12, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
MSN Fights for Google Search Share MSN Search is the latest entrant in a crowded market. Can it stand up to the competition? |
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 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. |
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. |
PC World
July 2005
Laurianne McLaughlin |
New Search Stars What's the trend in Web search? Newcomers and search giants cook up specialty services that get you information faster than ever. |
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. |
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. |
Entrepreneur
October 2006
Amanda C. Kooser |
Latest Search Engine Releases Search engines are big business. Here are some of the latest developments from the leaders to make your search life a little easier. |
| 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
September 22, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Myriad Search: Meta Search Your Way A new meta search engine lets Internet marketers and others compare results from the four top web search engines, and tweak their relative importance in a cutomized result set. |
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. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2006
Greg R. Notess |
On The Net - Tracking Your Search History Commercial databases and traditional online systems have offered a search history feature for decades. Web search engines are finally catching up. The options vary greatly among them, but all raise a number of privacy issues. |
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. |
ONLINE
Nov/Dec 2004
Greg R. Notes |
Internet Search Engine Update Ask Jeeves joins the push for local search... Google and Yahoo! now have their own blogs... Lycos has introduced two new focused search engines: People Search and Discussion Search... MSN Search's technology preview of its new search engine is now gone ... etc. |
InternetNews
January 31, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
MSN Launching New Search Tuesday Microsoft's MSN division is to announce switchover to home-grown search technology. |
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. |
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. |
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... |
