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With the new image technology, Ask Jeeves is ... expanding Image Smart Answers, which appear at the top of the search results page for queries such as "pictures of Mount St. Helens" from the main Web channel. All picture results can be saved to users' MyJeeves by clicking the 'save' link under each image. MyJeeves is a personal search service where links to web pages, images and selected Smart Answers can be stored, organized, annotated, searched and shared.
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Yahoo, Google and Ask Jeeves all are sporting customized logos for the holiday season. When you go to Yahoo.com and click on the top center logo it takes you to http://events.yahoo.com/holiday05/. When you go to Google.com and click on the middle center logo it takes you to Google's first of many holiday season doodles at http://www.google.com/doodle10.html (more to come). And if you go to Ask.com and click on the Jeeves logo, it takes you to a search results page (as a search engine should, imo) for http://www.ask.com/web?q=Happy+Holidays. Now Ask was sporting a snowman logo yesterday, so they are changing things up, possibly daily for the holiday season, keep and eye on them and Google for logo changes.
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[One] thorn in Ask Jeeves' side has been the growth of specialized search engines, such as Google Images and Yahoo Image Search, that have served to provide users with much higher degrees of accuracy and comfort. Ask.com has fought back with the introduction of its own specialized search spin-offs such as AskForKids.com.
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Search engine Ask Jeeves said today that it will take on market leader Google by using a newly developed search technology which it claims is superior. Read the rest of this entry »
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[H]idden within the Ask Jeeves search engine is some of the best search technology, known as Teoma. Rather than going along with the idea pushed by Google et al. that you should find the information you are seeking by putting keywords in a small window, AJ had a more natural approach. It was suggested that you ask a question, just as you would for any other source of knowledge. Usually the AJ results were much better than if you typed in the same question to Google or Yahoo!. By rebranding to push the idea of ASK, for which they ... have the domain, www.ask.com, they may well have a much bigger impact on all those potential customers who far outnumber their current customers. As usual, the current customers will probably accept the change with only a minor hesitation.
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The image search technology utilizes Ask Jeeves' unique algorithmic search ranking, which clusters the Web into topic areas and determines the authoritativeness of pages and images among their topic community. This approach requires additional computations beyond that of other ranking methodologies that simply evaluate the popularity of pages and images on the Web at large. Ask Jeeves combines this methodology with new sophisticated image recognition technologies to further increase relevance. These patent-pending recognition technologies measure a wide variety of image attributes, such as image type, shape, brightness and contrast level to determine picture quality. The combination returns extremely relevant, high quality images for unparalleled visual relevance.
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