Ask Jeeves: Why Buy Interactive Search Holdings?
Date: 2004-04-08 Source: SearchDay
Ask Jeeves' recent acquisition of Interactive Search Holdings has gone largely unremarked amid the recent sparring between industry titans Yahoo and Google. But the acquisition is significant, broadening Jeeves' reach and providing new resources that will be used to beef up its core Teoma search technology. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Rising Search Tide Lifting Several Boats
Date: 2004-03-05 Source: Traffick
It would be easy to scoff at the Jeeves acquisition as minor, but for the fact that it doubles its market share in a hot and growing market, seeming to guarantee continued profitability while allowing it to take the albeit belated step of eliminating paid inclusion for its Teoma/Ask.com search property. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
AskJeeves denounces paid inclusion
Date: 2004-03-03 Source: News.com
The company will stop accepting advertiser payments for inclusion in its searchable Web database, a move to draw competitive lines between it and Yahoo's new search engine. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Ask Jeeves: What's the Future of Search?
Date: 2004-02-25 Source: SearchDay
Ask Jeeves' vice president of products weighs in on the future of search, forecasting developments in local search, personalization, and the fate of the current fad involving social networks. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Ask Jeeves Rallies After Strong Quarter
Date: 2004-01-20 Source: TheStreet.com
Ask Jeeves, which said that the growth in queries users made on its site outpaced query growth for the search market in general, derives a majority of its revenue from search-related ads sold by the search engine giant Google. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Ask Jeeves gets Google boost in Q4
Date: 2003-12-02 Source: CBS.MarketWatch.com
Rohan estimates that Google's price-per-click is up 7 percent or more over the September quarter. Google accounted for 61 percent of Jeeves' sales in that period. That means sales from Google could be even higher in the holiday quarter. Rohan estimates that Google contributes about 64 percent of Jeeves' sales this quarter. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Search engines invest heavily in shoppers
Date: 2003-11-13 Source: East Bay Business Times
Daniel Read at Ask Jeeves Inc. learned something interesting in the past few months about online shoppers: they don't feel they are shopping. Shopping or not, they are going to make Jeeves and other search engine companies a whole load of money. Product search has emerged in the last year as a hot subcategory in which search engine companies are investing heavily. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Ask Jeeves chief says new exec team ready for future
Date: 2003-11-09 Source: The Contra Costa Times
People like choice in the way they access information. I don't believe people will allow this business to consolidate. I believe that people will continue to access information from multiple sources, in multiple ways. There will be a change in ownership, maybe. Five years from now, (there will be) a whole new cast of players, whether they built it or bought it from somebody else. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Ask Jeeves' CEO talks about future
Date: 2003-11-07 Source: CBS.MarketWatch.com
Ask Jeeves, with 300 employees, plans to beef up product marketing and enhance the technology around its search engine Teoma, said Steve Berkowitz, the Emeryville, Calif.-based company's newly appointed CEO. The company plans to hire between 30 and 60 people. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Going Shopping? Ask Jeeves for Advice
Date: 2003-11-04 Source: SearchDay
While Jeeves has long provided cost comparison for products through a partnership with Pricegrabber, the new smart search for product results offer a rich variety of different types of information in addition to prices, including product reviews, feature comparisons, links to online stores that sell products, clarification and sorting tools, and general web results from Teoma. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Ask Jeeves scraps it out with search engine giants
Date: 2003-10-29 Source: Red Herring
Over the past two years, Ask Jeeves has created a livelihood in a market that already seems sewn up. The Emeryville, California-based company has come back from the brink and reinvented itself, carving out a profitable niche in (of all places) the fiercely competitive online search market. Revenues last year were $74.1 million, up 11percent from the previous year’s $66.6 million. The most recent quarter’s revenues were up 71 percent compared to the same quarter last year. Jeeves now has four straight profitable quarters under its belt, and its stock trades at around $20. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Ask Jeeves Getting the Respect
Date: 2003-10-22 Source: TheStreet.com
For full-year 2003, the company is now forecasting revenue of $105 million and pro forma earnings per share of 36 cents. That's slightly ahead of analysts' current estimates of 34-cent EPS on revenue of $103 million. For 2004, the company expects EPS of 55 cents on revenue of $135 million, compared with expectations of 47 cents, also on $135 million. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Ask Jeeves Now Offering Advanced Search Interface
Date: 2003-10-17 Source: ResourceShelf
The Ask.Com advanced interface offers the same options that have been available at Teoma.Com for about a year. It allows limiting to words in the title or url of the web page, by language, to a specific domain/site/geo region and by date. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Ask Jeeves: How do you overcome?
Date: 2003-08-26 Source: CBS.MarketWatch.com
The short interest in Ask Jeeves climbed 65 percent in the month ending mid-July, bringing that measure of skepticism to yet another yearlong high, according to the Nasdaq. And the stock has risen even more since then. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
