Got A Question? Ask Jeeves!

Author:: Ellen T
Date:: July 6, 2009

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Ask.com, or Ask Jeeves in the United Kingdom, is a search engine started by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California. The original search engine software was implemented by Gary Chevsky from his own design. Chevsky, Justin Grant and others built the early AskJeeve.com website around that core engine. The original idea behind Ask Mr Jeeves, where “Jeeves” is the name of the “gentleman’s personal gentleman” or valet, fetching answers to any question asked. The character was based on Jeeves, Bertie Wooster’s fictional valet form the works of P. G. Wodehouse.

The original idea behind the Ask Jeeves search engine was to allow users to get answers to questions posed everyday, natural language. Ask Jeeves supported a variety of users’ queries in plain English as well as traditional keyword searching. The current www ask jeeves com still supports this, with added support for math, dictionary, conversion questions and even an Ask Jeeves for kids.com which launched some years ago to great acclaim. In 2005, the company announced plans to phase out Ask Mr. Jeeves. On February 27, 2006 the character disappeared from Ask.com.

The company operates localized services for certain countries and its associated languages including Ask.fr, Ask Jeeves Co UK and Ask.de (Germany). AskJeeves, Inc. stock traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange from July 1999 to July 2005, under the ticker symbol ASKJ. At the time of the IPO in 1999, ASKJ had the third best first day performance in history. In 2003 Ask Jeeve com was the 51st performing stock out of 3229 companies on NASDAQ.

Www.askjeeves.com or ask jeeves for kids com is still one of the best search engines on the Internet. And it’s Jeeves….not geeves. Happy Searching!

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