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Archive for the ‘ASK’ Category

November 29th, 2005

Google Shows ASK’s SERPs in it’s own Result Pages

Barry points to an interesting result page off Google that shows an ASK result page listed. The search is for Tuxedos and it looks like this:

ASK seems to not have a Robots.txt file in place to ‘disallow’ copetitors from crawling their site, and in fact, I can understand as they could be getting some free […]

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October 31st, 2005

Search Engines Dress-Up for Halloween

Jeeves is still around, and hasn’t been booted (yet), he’s known for his creative costume ideas…

Yahoo…

and Google…

I, personally, like Jeeves the best (although Yahoo’s is pretty cool as well), which one is your favorite?

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October 21st, 2005

ASK Ads Smart Recipes to the Mix

Ask Jeeves has implemented this week their “Tasty Treats” where they display more information in their “Smart Answers”. So if you are looking for MTV Music Generator 2.0 reviews, or even Thanksgiving Recipes you’ll get your results a bit faster.

Whether you’re looking to make some homemade Halloween treats, trying to figure out what to do […]

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October 3rd, 2005

First Ever Proposal via Search Engine

Barry posts about himself getting engaged to his girlfriend. He did it in a pretty neat way, he set-up a smart answer at Ask.com for his girlfriend’s name, and the result? See for yourself. Neat idea.
Congrats Barry and Yisha!

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August 24th, 2005

Ask Jeeves Interested in Grouper File Sharing

Om Malik reckons that Ask Jeeves is looking into acquiring the Grouper peer to peer file sharing social network. Om sees the acquisition as a channel for Ask Jeeves to bundle its download offerings as well as show its new sponsored search advertisements.

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August 16th, 2005

Ask Jeeves Launches New Paid Search Advertising Program

The “Ask Jeeves Sponsored Listings program” has been launched to the public, with the new auction-style system being designed “to allow advertisers of all sizes to purchase and manage campaigns on the Ask Jeeves network of sites”.
Ask Jeeves Sponsored Listings allows both large and small advertisers to purchase and manage their ads through a […]

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August 1st, 2005

Ask Jeeves goes where no butler has gone before: paid search

Well, the rumors are true and sometime later today Ask Jeeves will be launching their own paid search program. Rather than summerize whats going on I’ll do a quick run down of others.
Pandia:
The huge economic success of Google is based on the fact that the company managed to develop a new source of revenue […]

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July 27th, 2005

Ask Jeeves to offer Adwords like product?

A tipster has told Adrants that Ask Jeeves will announce its entry into the world of paid search bidding with the launch of a new product interface on August 1 that will compete with Google’s and Yahoo’s keyword bidding products.

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July 20th, 2005

Google Posts Record Number of Searches

Latest search stats from ECT:
Google’s 5.65 billion U.S. queries placed it at the top of the Web ferret pack for the quarter, followed by Yahoo, with 4.65 billion queries and a 30.4 percent market share; MSN, with 2.39 billion queries and a 15.6 percent share; AOL/Time Warner, with 1.41 billion queries and a 9.2 percent […]

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July 11th, 2005

Diller on Jeeves: serving the company well

The Herald Tribune has some interesting stuff on Barry Diller of IAC and Ask Jeeves…. Ask Jeeves not what it can do for search, but what it can do for IAC :-)

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