Has anyone here ever used "ask Jeeves"? I think I used it once a few years back.
Maybe twice for me.
Of course, they aren't paying 1.9 billion in cash. Just handing over some Monopoly money stock certificates.
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Same for me. I seem to remember not getting it to respond too well. Never went back. Why, when there's so many engines so much better?
Exactly. What on earth gives this company value? The page (if I recall from the two or so times it came up by accident) is embarassingly idiotic.
It must be a sweetheart deal by investment bankers and VC's who own most of the stock.
My buddy worked for them many years ago.
I tried it and I thought it was lame.
Are the advert. revenues worth almost $2 Billion?
My major search engine it is good for asking questions if you ask a question I find it answers it better than google does. For word search I use google.
I tried, and boy did it s*ck.
I tried using it's natural language query and all it would return was advertisments. Useless.
Here are the search engine stats from my web site:
2406 Google
704 Yahoo
456 MSN
302 Other search engines
121 Lycos
78 AOL
33 Hotbot
25 AltaVista
8 Netscape
6 Excite
5 Mamma
3 Go.com
3 AllTheWeb
3 WebCrawler
2 Search.com
2 MetaCrawler (Metamoteur)
1 Virgilio
I don't see any ask jeeves.