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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.
In the late 1990s, a free online service called Answer Point provided by Ask Jeeves, was launched, allowing users to ask questions and with the help of other people, have them answered. The slogan of the service, "The Ask Jeeves Answer Point is the place where you can ask and answer questions.
Ask Jeeves, a natural language web search engine, that aims to rank links by popularity, is released. It would later become Ask.com. September 15: New web search engine: The domain Google.com is registered. Soon, Google Search is available to the public from this domain (around 1998). 23: New web search engine (non-English)
Scott Jones (founder) Website. chacha.com (defunct) The company, founded in 2006 by Scott A. Jones and Brad Bostic, was based in Carmel, Indiana, United States, part of the Indianapolis metropolitan area. Its name comes from the Mandarin Chinese word cha ( Chinese: 查; pinyin: chá; Wade–Giles: ch'a ), which means "to search."
Last summer, Jeeves was participating in Y Combinator’s summer batch as a fledgling fintech. Today, the company, which is building an “all-in-one expense management platform” for global ...
David Warthen. 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. 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.
Less than seven months after closing on a $57 million Series B, fast-growing fintech Jeeves has raised $180 million in a Series C round that values the company at $2.1 billion. When it raised in ...