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Ask.com (originally known as Ask Jeeves) is a question answering –focused e-business founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California. The original software was implemented by Gary Chevsky, from his own design. Warthen, Chevsky, Justin Grant, and others built the early AskJeeves.com website around that core engine.
Teoma. Teoma (from Scottish Gaelic teòma "expert") was an Internet search engine founded in April 2000 by Professor Apostolos Gerasoulis and his colleagues at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Professor Tao Yang from the University of California, Santa Barbara co-led technology R&D. Their research grew out of the 1998 DiscoWeb project.
Ask Jeeves, a natural language web search engine, that aims to rank links by popularity, is released. It would later become Ask.com. [14] [30] September 15: New web search engine: The domain Google.com is registered. [30] Soon, Google Search is available to the public from this domain (around 1998). 23: New web search engine (non-English)
David Warthen (born December 10, 1957) was one of the founders of Ask Jeeves, now called Ask.com, [1] an internet search engine.Warthen has served as Chief Technology Officer or Vice President of Engineering for a variety of companies, [2] [3] many of them start-ups, [4] [5] [6] over his career.
From 1996 until 2006, Ask.com, a question-and-answer search engine, was known as Ask Jeeves and featured a caricature of a butler on its launch page. [111] The name of Jeeves has also been used by other companies and services, such as the British dry-cleaning firm Jeeves of Belgravia and the New Zealand company Jeeves Tours. [112]
According to a press release issued by Ask Jeeves, Interactive Search Holdings was the 9th most visited property in December 2003, with destinations such as My Way, My Web Search, and iWon. [10] On July 20, 2005, Ask Jeeves was purchased by IAC, [11] and Interactive Search Holdings, Inc. was renamed to IAC Consumer Applications & Portals (IAC CAP).
Excite continued to operate until the Excite Network was acquired by Ask Jeeves (now Ask.com) in March 2004. Ask Jeeves promised to rejuvenate iWon and Excite, but was not able to. Ask Jeeves management became distracted, according to the East Bay Business Times, first by a search feature arms race with Google and Yahoo!, and then by its merger ...
Myriad Search was a metasearch engine developed by Aaron Wall [1] which offered ad-free search results. Myriad Search allowed users to select search results from Ask Jeeves, [2] Google, [2] MSN, and Yahoo It was trialled ("in beta") from September 16, 2005, [3] and in February 2006 Wall made the source code available as open source.