What is Ask?

Summary of Company

Ask launched as Ask Jeeves in Berkeley, California in late 1995 as a solution to humanize the online search engine experience. Ask Jeeves was the 2nd largest search property on the Web that has more than 16 million unique users per month. The use of a butler as the company branding symbolized the servitude Ask Jeeves brings to help people quickly find accurate information without exerting effort. Users type questions into the search engine and it retrieves appropriate results.In early 2006 Ask jeeves is tranformed in ASK with the use of Teoma technology. It holds about 6% of the search market in the US.

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Ownership: Ask

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