Ask Jeeves boots banner ads
Date: 2003-01-06 Source: News.com
Ask Jeeves is dropping banner ads from its flagship search site and will instead rely on paid sponsorships and other "targeted" advertising for revenue, the company said Monday. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Tonight We're Going to Advertise Like It's 1999
Date: 2002-11-22 Source: TheStreet.com
Imagine our surprise this week when we passed by a well-preserved relic from Wall Street's distant past: an outdoor advertisement for an Internet portal. Yes, there it was, slapped on the side of a pay-telephone kiosk at the intersection of Broadway and 78th Street: an ad trumpeting the merits of Internet information site Ask Jeeves. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Ask Jeeves Launches Outdoor Ad Campaign
Date: 2002-11-15 Source: InternetNews.com
Search engine Ask Jeeves is taking the wraps off an advertising campaign Monday that skips the expensive TV commercials it used in its early days in favor of more sensible guerilla marketing and outdoor advertising. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Ask Jeeves bans pop-ups
Date: 2002-10-21 Source: ZDNet
Ask Jeeves banned pop-up advertisements from its search site, making it the latest Web operator to discontinue the consumer-loathed ads. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
A Look at Ask Jeeves and Teoma
Date: 2002-09-20 Source: Search Engine Guide
Recently, Jim Lanzone, Vice President of Product Management with Ask Jeeves, attended a chat session with students from the Academy, and he answered a lot of very interesting questions about Ask Jeeves’ Web properties. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Ask Jeeves To Carry Google's Ads
Date: 2002-08-05 Source: SearchEngineWatch.com
From September, a three year deal will see Ask Jeeves carrying paid listings from Google on its search properties, including Ask Jeeves-owned Teoma.com, which the company has positioned as a Google killer. In the article below, the how and why from an interview with Steve Berkowitz, president of Ask Jeeves Web Properties. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
So Long Direct Hit, Hello Teoma
Date: 2002-02-04 Source: The Search Engine Report
Say your goodbyes to the Direct Hit search engine. Direct Hit is no longer the favored child of parent company Ask Jeeves, now that the company's new baby, Teoma, is growing up. Ask Jeeves has begun using Teoma results in place of information that previously came from Direct Hit. In addition, Ask Jeeves said last month that while the Teoma site would continue to operate on its own, the Direct Hit web site would be closed later this year. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Ask Jeeves Acquires Teoma
Date: 2001-10-02 Source: The Search Engine Report
Ask Jeeves has purchased the Teoma search engine, which has attracted interest over recent months as a potential relevancy challenger to Google. Ask Jeeves hopes that the acquisition will help it both reenter the search results syndication market and make its own search site more appealing to consumers. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Ask Jeeves buys Teoma
Date: 2001-09-11 Source: Pandia
Ask Jeeves, a search engine company known for its ability to interpret natural language queries, has now acquired the privately held Teoma Technologies, Inc. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Ask George?
Date: 2001-02-28 Source: InternetNews.com
Ask Jeeves Business Solutions has teamed up with the State of Washington to deploy Ask Jeeves' search engine service on the Access Washington state Internet portal (access.wa.gov.). [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Seven Dumb Things You Can Ask Jeeves
Date: 2000-10-06 Source: Search Engine Guide
As we've noted in the past, Ask Jeeves! is not as clever as he looks; nor is he a search engine that will help you with every problem. Still, we need to give the old codger his due. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Ask Jeeves Asks Direct Hit
Date: 2000-02-03 Source: Search Engine Watch
In a surprise move, but one that makes perfect sense, Ask Jeeves announced last week that it was acquiring Direct Hit in a $500 million stock deal. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Ask Jeeves Gets Personal
Date: 2000-01-20 Source: InternetNews.com
Personal Jeeves as a platform that provides targeted information and customized services to consumers based on their needs and interests. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Ask Jeeves Buys Online Help Firm
Date: 1999-11-15 Source: InternetNews.com
In a move to expand its question answering services, natural question search engine Ask Jeeves, Inc. Monday purchased Net Effect Systems Inc., a provider of Web-based live help services, in a stock deal worth approximately $280 million. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Jeeves goes to Hollywood
Date: 1999-10-29 Source: Red Herring
"We want to move Jeeves off of the Internet and make him a pop icon in American culture," says Ted Briscoe, senior vice president and general manager of Ask Jeeves's consumer division. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Ask Jeeves quadruples in debutpop
Date: 1999-07-02 Source: Red Herring
Wall Street had a plain-English answer about how much demand there was for Ask Jeeves stock: plenty. Priced at $14 per share, the company named after an especially accommodating valet in P.G. Wodehouse novels saw its stock sprint 414 percent to a midday open of $72. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
