Category: The search engine industry

Ask and Ask Jeeves goes back to basics and launches an enlarged question and answer database that allows for natural language search queries.

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Ask.com tries to sneak in an Ask toolbar by adding a topframe to search engine results — again. That is bad idea.

Jeeves the butler reappeares at the UK version of Ask.com.

The Pirate Bay lost in Swedish courts. Pandia argues that even if BitTorrent is used for the distribution of copyright protected material, the idea of punishing the search engine may undermine the very foundation of web fuctionality.

The Norwegian media company Schibsted has decided to close down its Sesam search engine.

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Microsoft may be on the right track with the next incarnation of Live Search, for the time being called the Kumo search engine. Kumo does, for instance, copy some of Ask.com’s best features, features Ask has — alas — abandoned.