Ask Jeeves is an Internet information retrieval company founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California. The original software was architected and implemented by Gary Chevsky. The RODA Group, a venture capital firm, were early investors. Rob Wrubel joined the company as CEO in 1998 and led the company until late 2001, when he was replaced by Skip Battle. The current CEO is Steve Berkowitz.
Ask Jeeves owns a variety of popular web destinations including ask.com, ask.co.uk, ajkids.com, teoma.com, exci ...
The original idea behind Ask Jeeves was the ability to answer questions asked in natural language. Ask Jeeves was the first commercial question-answering search engine for the World Wide Web. It supports a variety of user queries in plain English (natural language), as well as traditional keyword searching and strives to be more intuitive and user-friendly than other search engines. Ask Jeeves sold the same technology used on the ask.com site to corporate entities including Dell, Toshiba, and E*Trade. ...
The original idea behind Ask Jeeves was the ability to answer questions asked in natural language. Ask Jeeves was the first commercial question-answering search engine for the World Wide Web. It supports a variety of user queries in plain English (natural language), as well as traditional keyword searching and strives to be more intuitive and user-friendly than other search engines. Ask Jeeves sold the same technology used on the ask.com site to corporate entities including Dell, Toshiba, and E*Trade. ...
Ask Jeeves stock traded on 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 3rd best first-day performance in history. In 2003, it was the 51st best performing stock out of 3229 companies on the NASDAQ. The price of Ask Jeeves stock soared more than 500% throughout the course of the year. In July 2005, ASKJ ticker was retired upon the closing of the acquisition by IAC/InterActiveCorp. IAC/InterActiveCorp trades on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol IACI. T ...
