Ask Jeeves Adds Search Tools
Date: 2003-08-25 Source: InternetNews.com
Now, users can query Smart Answers to receive local weather reports, surf conditions and flight delays. In addition, users can enter in more than 100 numerical conversions, such as cups in a gallon or the value of Pi. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
AskJeeves Execs Lighten Up
Date: 2003-08-19 Source: TheStreet.com
The Internet search company said five executives including CEO Skip Battle entered separate agreements to make predetermined sales of up to 1.6 million shares total under an SEC program known as 10b5-1. About 600,000 shares were already unloaded by Battle, President Steve Berkowitz and Chief Financial Officer Steve Sordello on Monday. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Searching Google Where's Jeeves?
Date: 2003-07-24 Source: Yahoo! News
When you're only the fifth-biggest search service and have a reputation for bad searches, whom do you blame? The butler, of course. The Emeryville, Calif.-based Ask Jeeves is canning its once-ubiquitous pinstriped Brit butler from advertising after four years. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Don't dismiss faithful Ask Jeeves
Date: 2003-07-21 Source: The Globe and Mail
Ask Jeeves has worked hard at updating its technology and refreshing the product it provides to its corporate clients for their Web sites. Meanwhile, the company is in the black, and will report its second quarterly profit in a row tomorrow, reversing steep losses from this time last year. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Ask Jeeves in the Search Spotlight
Date: 2003-05-30 Source: InternetNews.com
Battle points out that consumers do not view search as an either- or behavior, using many different search engines for their needs. Ask Jeeves hopes to begin raising its brand profile slowly but surely. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Ask Jeeves sheds enterprise unit
Date: 2003-05-29 Source: News.com
Web navigation company Ask Jeeves is selling its enterprise software unit for about $4.25 million in cash, a sign of further consolidation in the growing search industry. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Ask Jeeves Sees Growing Profits
Date: 2003-04-23 Source: InternetNews.com
Ask Jeeves's executives said the positive results came in large part because of the booming market for paid listings. Paid placement, which includes its Google partnership, paid inclusion, and other search-advertising options, grew 71 percent from a year earlier. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Jeeves Answers Back
Date: 2003-04-23 Source: Fool.com
As an unlikely 10-bagger over the past few months, the search specialist and its new, spiffed-up site has had no problem lining up believers. Paid listings mean big money. And, let's be honest, they're nowhere near as annoying as pop-up ads. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Ask Jeeves Expands Pharma Focus
Date: 2003-02-10 Source: InternetNews.com
Making inroads in a promising sector, natural language search specialist Ask Jeeves this morning said it has closed a deal with Novartis Pharmaceuticals. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Ask Jeeves Still Answering Questions
Date: 2003-02-03 Source: Forbes
It may be hard to remember, but there was a time when Google wasn't the search engine of choice on the Web. Back in 1999, Ask Jeeves was the darling of the sector. Its stock traded as high as $190. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Ask Jeeves Bans Banners
Date: 2003-01-06 Source: InternetNews.com
The search company's Ask.com site has officially gone banner-free, as it concentrates on paid-placement ads to pay the bills. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
