What is Ask Jeeves: Definition of Ask Jeeves

Ask Jeeves is a search engine based on “natural or human language” and allows searchers to ask the Jeeves character a question (“What is the Population of USA?”) and get an answer, not just a list of documents holding the words.

When it is founded?

According to me Ask Jeeves was founded in 1996 as a natural language search engine.

Ask Jeeves Approaches

Being a search engine and based on natural language, Ask search engine yielding good answers to popular questions; because it depends on human editors selecting the best answers, however, it doesn’t work at all for more esoteric subjects the editors did not handle. E.g. it returns the answers which are so well known to the humans (“Where USA is Located?”).

Ask Jeeves either working with Other Search Engines

According to my studies and recent phenomenon, Ask Jeeves has started working with some organic search engines to acquire more organic search share. Ask Jeeves has acquired several organic search engine companies. In other words many local and international search engines are working behind the main portal of Ask Jeeves to provide a complete technical support, which enables Ask Jeeves to exhibit quality results just about to Google organic search results. According to an expert, Ask Jeeves has built a search engine which is the contiguous competitor to Google in quality. I’ve conducted an interview with a search marketer last month on (June 1st 2007), here it is:

An Interview with a Search Marketer

What do you think whether Ask Jeeves has ability to compete Google in search results?
He replied me that the Ask Jeeves has great ability to beat Google in near future but not now. He also affirmed that the Ask Jeeves is continuously increasing and spreading its search strength as compare to Google; Google only works under some limited search standards which comes under both natural and unnatural, but Ask Jeeves providing the results which are quite natural and similar to what we are looking for.

That interview having worth to me, as I never been heard it before that someone challenging Google in respect of displaying organic results. When I finished it, I said wow!

Ask Jeeves and Excite Search Engine

As I mentioned it above that Ask Jeeves is currently working with so many search engines. To add market share, Ask Jeeves also attained “Excite” one of the original Internet portals and still a popular search site. Until now Ask Jeeves has succeeded to attract more than 6 percent of all searches, when you add up the visits to all of its properties.

Ask Jeeves Paid Organic Results

Ask Jeeves uses Google Paid Search Program (Adwords). Worldwide marketers can reach Ask Jeeves searchers through Google’s paid search, but need to pay attention to Ask Jeeves organic search results, too. Finally Ask Jeeves has been rising in reputation; so although it has a comparatively small share of searchers today, it bears watching.