For a generation of early internet users, it was the most courteous corner of the web - a place where questions were asked in plain English and answered, at least in theory, by a genial digital butler ...

Ask Jeeves will cut down on search time with a query refinement enhancement it calls "Zoom". The feature zooms in to refine a search and zooms out for broader search results. Zoom identifies and ...

Ask.com, formerly known as Ask Jeeves, has officially closed after 25 years, with parent company IAC citing a strategic refocus. Launched in 1996, it was a pioneer of natural language search and an ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ask Jeeves Inc., the third-biggest U.S. Web search provider, late Monday unveiled MyJeeves, a new product that helps users personalize their Internet searches. The release comes amid a ...

Ask Jeeves Inc. has decided to cancel one of its programs that allowed companies to pay to have hard-to-index information on their Web sites updated frequently and included in the Ask Jeeves ...

Ask Jeeves is actively looking at strengthening its flagship search engine Web site with features, services and technologies found elsewhere in its online network. Ask Jeeves is taking inventory to ...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 21 -- The race to develop a better Web search engine and operate it profitably grew even more competitive Monday when media mogul Barry Diller's IAC/InterActive Corp. announced it ...

Who’d have thought one of the first online publishers to turn its back on the Web’s most traditional ad format would be the one with the most straight-laced mascot? Ask Jeeves Web Properties, a ...

Not bad for one of the larger, yet still smaller players of the search engine race. Google is still on top as the story on CNet shows: Ask Jeeves said Thursday that it is buying Interactive Search ...