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Following the launch of Ask Espana in 2005, Ask Deutschland is the first in a number of European launches Ask Jeeves plans for 2006. The company said it plans to leverage the strength of its brand, its technology and partnerships with leading consumer media companies to grow share in emerging markets.
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Ask Jeeves, the country's fifth-most-popular search site, has differentiated itself from competitors by allowing users to pose queries as if they were asking a friend or relative. For the nearly 10 years it has existed, the company's dapper cartoon butler has stood ready, his hands on his lapels, to provide answers. Ask Jeeves has long been considered to have strong technology but has lacked the capital of a Google, Yahoo or MSN.
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Ask Jeeves CEO: Technology Matters in Web Search: Q&A: It may get overshadowed by Google, Yahoo and MSN, but the company is ready for the search wars, top exec Steve Berkowitz says. Article discusses search in general and the ASK technology and partners specifically.
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Ask Jeeves expects to roll out these enhancements to its free and fee-based e-mail services before the end of September, he said. These portals are overwhelmingly geared at U.S. audiences, so the users in question are almost all based in the U.S., he said. Also planned is the provision of antivirus protection for its e-mail users, a feature the Ask Jeeves services now lack, he said. The company does offer antispam filtering, he said.
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In reality, technology wasn't what made Ask Jeeves perform so well. Behind the scenes, the company at one point had about 100 editors who monitored search logs. They then went out onto the web and located what seemed to be the best sites to match the most popular queries.
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Ask Jeeves Inc.’s AskJeeves.com will offer a comparative shopping service provided by PriceGrabber.com, the two companies said today. The service will let shoppers compare products in nine categories, including books, computers and toys by specific characteristics such as technical features, price and manufacturer.
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