If you’re a '90s kid, chances are Ask Jeeves rings a bell - after all, it used to be our go-to internet guru before Google dominated the scene. Launched in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in ...

If you grew up in the 1990s, you'll probably remember an internet-based business with a question answering format known as Ask Jeeves. It was launched back in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen ...

Google GOOGL may be celebrating its 25 th anniversary today. But who remembers the pre-Google world of search? As in such once-prominent search engines as AltaVista, Excite, Lycos, WebCrawler and even ...

It was a simpler time. A friend introduced us, pulling up a static yellow webpage using a shaky dial-up modem. A man stood forth, dressed in a dapper black pinstriped suit with a red-accented tie. He ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--Now that it's part of media mogul Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp, the Ask Jeeves butler is shaping up, cutting back on sponsored results that bloated its site and increasing more ...

Ask Jeeves Monday will unleash its most aggressive attempt in years to increase usage of its search engine, rolling out a broad set of new and improved features and a drastic rebranding of the service ...

Internet butler Jeeves--star of eponymous search engine Ask Jeeves--has gone missing, leaving many to wonder where he's gone and when or if he will be back. Others may simply be tempted to wonder ...

Ask Jeeves Inc. will buy the privately owned Interactive Search Holdings Inc. (ISH) for about $343 million in a move that the Emeryville, California, company expects will double its search market ...

Ask Jeeves Inc. will bolster the ability of its Ask.com search engine to respond to queries that seek information about a specific geographic location. Through a licensing deal with ...

Ask Jeeves has extended a deal with Google to allow the search king to provide sponsored links on its sites and portals until 2007. The earlier three-year agreement let Google feature its paid ...

Seeking to complement its flagship search engine, Ask Jeeves has acquired Trustic, which owns and operates the Bloglines online content-aggregation service, Ask Jeeves is announcing Tuesday. Bloglines ...