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The original idea of Ask Jeeves was to allow users to get answers to questions in everyday, natural language, and traditional keyword searching. The current Ask.com still provides this for mathematics, dictionary, and conversion questions. Ask Jeeves was initiated as a beta version during mid-April 1997 and was initiated completely on June 1, 1997.
The last archived version of the Ask Point was from late 2001 when it still allowed registration. Since then, more and more sites have begun to offer Q&A services. Google launched its Q&A service called Google Questions and Answers in August 2001 which used Google staffers to answer questions by e-mail. A flat fee (US$3.00) was involved for an ...
Google Answers was designed as an extension to the conventional search: rather than doing the search themselves, users would pay someone else to do the search. Anyone could ask questions, offer a price for an answer, and researchers, who were called Google Answers Researchers or GARs, answered them.
Ask Jeeves, a natural language web search engine, that aims to rank links by popularity, is released. It would later become Ask.com. [14] [30] September 15: New web search engine: The domain Google.com is registered. [30] Soon, Google Search is available to the public from this domain (around 1998). 23: New web search engine (non-English)
David Warthen (born December 10, 1957) was one of the founders of Ask Jeeves, now called Ask.com, [1] an internet search engine.Warthen has served as Chief Technology Officer or Vice President of Engineering for a variety of companies, [2] [3] many of them start-ups, [4] [5] [6] over his career.
The co-founder of the search engine Ask Jeeves has said that artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT have the potential to finally fulfil his vision for how the internet should operate ...
In 1995, Gruener alongside David Warthen, a consulting engineer, created a company called Ask Jeeves. [6] After both investing over $250,000 they set up their office in Berkeley, California . Named after the butler in the stories by P.G. Wodehouse [ 7 ] "who had an answer to every problem", the firm provides software that operates in a ...
Gary Chevsky (born September 11, 1972 in Odesa) is an American entrepreneur, engineer and was the founding architect of Ask.com.He served as President at Tango mobile video and audio-over-IP calling service for consumers, before founding a Social Virtual Reality company StayUp Inc.