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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. [6] On September 18, 2001, Ask Jeeves acquired Teoma for more than $1.5 million. [8] In July 2005, Ask Jeeves was acquired by IAC. [9] [10]
When Ask Jeeves launched in 1997, it set itself apart from the competition by encouraging users to ask questions using “natural language” rather than just keywords.
For the Ask.com UK operation, Safka re-introduced the Jeeves character – the brand was initially called "Ask Jeeves", although the company had chosen to cease using the beloved butler in 2007. The British market enthusiastically greeted Jeeves' return, and Ask.com received significant press attention. [21] [22]
In 1997, they made their product available for free on the Internet under the name Ask.com. [8] The product utilizes syntactic and semantic analysis to answer the asked question through one of the around 10,000 basic formulas. It shows various versions of the question and allows the user to pick the desired one.
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.
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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.
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