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Ask Jeeves Looks to Outshine Google
bizpile writes "The AP is reporting that Ask Jeeves is looking to distinguish itself from its competitors by adding new tools for visitors to save and organize links to Web pages they find through the company's online search engine. "Google is not better than us," said Jim Lanzone, an Ask Jeeves senior vice president. "We are both operating at a world-class level. We just have a different flavor." This free feature is scheduled to be unveiled Tuesday." With Amazon's new search engine recently arising, it definitely appears to be a critical time for search engines.
Pepsi operates "at a world class level", but they "just have a different flavor" than Coca-Cola.
Burger King operates "at a world class level", but they "just have a different flavor" than McDonalds.
We don't like monopolies in our marketplace, and as a result we always have a place for the perpetual also-ran. Never able to capture the #1 spot may seem depressing, but it's still possible to profit as a #2 and be lying in wait in case the #1 player makes real big mistakes.
Google will have to seriously misbehave in order to give up enough market share so that Ask Jeeves can pass them. However, having Ask Jeeves parked in the #2 rank spot is enough motivation that hopefully Google will never forget its "Don't be Evil" policy.
The line Google is not better than us, we're both world class reminds me so much of Doctor Nick's "As Good As Doctor Hibbert" yellow page ad in the Simpsons.
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I use different search engines all the time, more for a laugh than anything. Frankly, they all find what I'm looking for. I like the fact that they don't all suffer from Google's inability to cope with wildcards.
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for example.
"Ask Jeeves is touting its service as more user-friendly because it doesn't require the installation of any toolbars or software programs."
FUD. Google and other search engines don't require toolbars or software installation.
"The next generation of search isn't going to be about who can build the biggest indexes (of Web pages)," said analyst Charlene Li of Forrester Research. "It's going to about finding better ways to personalize search results and modify the way the results are presented."
That's outright idiotic. I want the most relevant search results based on the largest index possible.
I just 'asked jeeves' to look up my real name in quotation marks: 481 hits. Google? 1420. A quick glance to the last hits on Google are indeed relevant. What has AskJeeves missed? Google isn't going to rest on their laurels, AskJeeves will be playing perpetual catch-up. Now when have you heard "Ask Jeeves" used in the common vocabulary? What about Google? It's a used as a verb now.
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Failure already. How can you hope to be a goood search engine, when the non-sponsored results are half way down the page? Give me a break jeeves, ask yourself why you are still trying.
It was certainly distinguishing itself in my logs... I recently moved to a "gallery.lazylightning.org" setup from lazylightning.org/gallery/. Oblivious to the problems this would cause w/my robots.txt I had every spider and their brother killing my webserver with requests.
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Anyway, so I create a new robots.txt file that includes all the individual directories from the gallery directories. AskJeeves apparently read the robots.txt the day before and thought it was then ok to index the site after that at its leisure. It spent the next two days indexing my site even though it was ignoring the new robots.txt put in place about 24 hours before.
AskJeeves will no longer be indexing my site as I just banned their know IP ranges. If you are going to compete as a search engine you best make the people you are spidering happy.
MSNBot was spending the time indexing my site as well but they didn't fail to ignore the new robots.txt that was put out there. Thanks!
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Doesnt Jeeves use google as its backend?
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"Google is not better than us," Jim Lanzone of Ask Jeeves said. "Google is nowhere near as good as we are! In fact, Google does not exist! They are nowhere near Bagdhad! And we have shot down one of their Apache helicopters!"
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I had seend something where Jeeves/Ask is somewhere in the remaining 3% of the search engine market not dominated by Google and Yahool. They've got a ways to grow.
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Amazons new search engine is just a new frontend for google and some other engines and dbs (for example: amzons database *Surprise*). A9 is NOT a threat to google. When A9 wins- Google wins. Simple as that.
Just because Google thus far has been a very good company and used its power appropriately doesn't mean we should be satisfied with only one search engine. If we want to see innovation we need healthy competition, so I wish AskJeeves and all the others good luck.
How many others are going to throw their hat in the 'seach' ring? oh well, at least we don't have askjeevesmail or askjeevestunes (yet!) I can see how AJ is looking for a different target audience, as I think Google has the general one locked up, but what can they offer? Their 'natural language' search fell apart, so what will they bring that is truely new/unique to the table?
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It all comes down to whether you appreciate a clean, uncluttered interface, or if you want anything but simplicity. Google has pulled it off the best. Ask Jeeves is currently basically a lame ripoff of the Google interface, and A9 is fairly clean but there is still too much going on for my tastes. Any other major search engine has way, way too much going on. And regardless of how amazingly fast A9 works, I am certain that plain old Google will continue to be the cleanest, fastest, and most efficient search engine. My only gripe is that searching on Google is still far from intelligent.
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What about Google? It's a used as a verb now.
It's a perfectly cromulent word.
I had never heard of Ask Jeeves until I googled for it.
Lets face it, people don't want to organize links. The only thing they want is to find what they are looking for. The one that does that the best is the best engine. The one that finds exactly what you're looking for every time. THIS is the next generation search engine.
Used to be that when you asked "funny" questions, you got "funny" answers. In fact, you can read the old result to this question here. So - they may have confused more potent technology with "growing up" in a way that Google, thankfully, has yet to do.
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Ask Jeeves prompts the user to ask in plain language but the thing just parses out keywords and does a standard search. It doesn't interpret the intent of the question so all kinds of wierd results come back that have nothing to do with what you're looking for (just like a typical Google or Yahoo search). If it actually did try to figure out what you are really asking then it would be a lot more useful. Since it doesn't, why even pretend?
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look, with google branching out into the browser market, the online shopping market, the newsgroup market, the news market and the email market, why oh why would anyone want to compete with them. Its a classic American Way story in the International venue. Embrace Google for what it has become, look for a new app instead of trying to beat them. An old boss once told me that it is impossible to "out-Starbucks Starbucks", so don't try. Instead, innovate !!
"Google is not better than us," said Jim Lanzone
...we have a cartoon butler!!
They just deliver better results and are more useful to the average user. And if that makes them better... [whispers to aide]what was my point again[/whisper]
I remember when Google came out. Not much talk on their part about what they were going to do ... rather they just went out and kicked everyone's butt.
I'm not quite sure if this annoucement isn't just to make investors happy or to make the Ask Jeeves more 'sellable' but if search.yahoo.com couldn't wack Google, what makes AJ think they can?
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Not Flamebait. This was an old easter egg in Ask Jeeves. Doesn't work anymore though. He also used to answer "What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?" with "What do you mean? A European or an African swallow?"
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"Google is not better than us," said Jim Lanzone, an Ask Jeeves senior vice president. "We are both operating at a world-class level. We just have a different flavor."
I prefer my Google with chocolate and sprinkles.
If your favorite search engine were a flavor, what would it be?
If "disco" means "I learn" in Latin, does "discothèque" mean "I learn technology"?
it deifnitely appears to be a critical time for search engines.
It also deifnitely appears to be a critical time for dictionary.com.
"Looks to Outshine Google"? Well i'll be...
I wonder how much boardroom time was wasted on trying to decided whether to announce the "Outshine Google" press release or the "Continue to Be Google's Bitches" press release?
Thank god there are highly paid staff in place at Ask Jeeves who can make the right decisions for the stockholders!
All these search engines are great but they are nothing without content. Whoever successfully wins the race to get between the transaction of searching for content and the content itself is going to make a dookload of money. On your marks, get set.. GO!
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Is that why Ask Jeeves threatened a lawsuit against the Something Awful website when one of their comedy goldmines featured photoshop parodies of the Ask Jeeves browser, whereas Google didn't seem to mind when the same was done to them?
Maybe if they want to be respected as much as Google they should learn to act more mature, rather than throw lawsuits around when someone pokes a little fun at their product
Query: "Does AskJeeves suck?" First Hit Title: "10/19/1999: ASK JEEVES is the worst site on the internet" I'd say it works pretty well... :)
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Yes they are.
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"If Ask Jeeves were an ice cream flavor, it would be pralines and dick."
That's all there is to it. Based on this blurb, I went to look at Ask Jeeves, and see what they had to offer. Ran a search, clicked on a result - and they lost me when they kept control of a portion of my browser window so I could run another search.
I don't understand why so many companies don't understand such a simple concept: get off my back. Isn't Google's example clear enough for them? I like Google because it's fast and accurate, by and large. Because it's a simple page that loads quickly even if I'm somewhere on a dialup. It doesn't pop windows over or under my browser window. In short, Google acts like they want to help me, rather than like they want me to help them.
That's all there is to it. I can't think of a feature a search engine could add that would overcome Google's interface advantage. To get my clicks, another search engine would have to have an even more simple interface, and I see that being hard to accomplish.
Wait, I lied. If a search engine was able to somehow figure out what I mean conceptually rather than contextually, I would use it all the time...but since that would require an almost human level of language comprehension, I don't think I'll need to worry about switching any time soon. As it stands, AJ's "natural language" abilities were just "we won't tell you we ignored 'of' and 'the' in your search request."
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Go to ask.com and search for "oscar best picture 1997" or similar. You get a nice banner saying "The 1997 Best Picture award was given to "Titanic" Looks like they're doing a little text recognition there in addition to standard searching.
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John Battelle has covered the new Ask Jeeves as well. You can read what he has to say about it at his site
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Is it good, or is it whack?
Satirewire.com "interviewed" Jeeves a while back. The results are nothing short of hilarious.
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One of the most infuriating things about Google is that when there is a match to a Wikipedia page, there may be dozens of Wikipedia spam clones that show up first. Besides barraging you with unwanted ads, these spam clones are often outdated, and special symbols such as in math formulas tend to be corrupted. Once you suspect your match is in Wikipedia, you often have to do a site-specific search for Wikipedia even to show up on the list.
Wikipedia is important enough that it deserves a special exception to whatever algorithm picks these spam clones first, if that's what it takes to do it. Google ignores this problem in spite of repeated complaints. Fix it, Jeeves, and I'll become a regular visitor.
First result of Ask Jeeves: Hmm?
First result of Google: Ahem.
There you have it.
From ask.com:
> Search Just Got Personal. Take the MyJeeves Tour!
Ok, the whole line is the same style (plain red text). Why do I have to mouseover the last two words to figure out it's a link?
All this anti-google stuff is kind of weird, since a big chunk of Ask Jeeves profits come from Google advertising program.
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As long as aj.com continues to keep "sponsored web results" which look like the "web results" I'll continue to use google, which at least their sponsored results are clearly marked and on the right hand side.
And that's where Google still wins. Jeeves has icons, Red Cross donations, and more. And to make all the various links less intrusive, they're in a tiny-tiny font; Google's search page links are normally sized and still don't intrude. Overall, Jeeve's page has a lot of visual noise.
Well, at least the AskJeeves site didn't return an advertisement for "Big Huge Penis pictures".
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"With Amazon's new search engine recently arising, it deifnitely appears to be a critical time for search engines."
'Arising' doesn't fit here. Maybe you meant 'appearing'? In that case, change the word 'appears' in the next sentence to 'seems' (to avoid word redundancy) and you're good to go.
What, you mean like ~detect~? Seems to have a wildcard function to me.. aswell as literally hundreds of advanced functions that almost no other search engines posses..
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Aw.
It's been awhile since I used AJ, but back in the day, you could ask, "Are you gay?" And Jeeves would respond, "I prefer the term 'jovial.'"
Not anymore, alas.
Jeeves uses Googles paid advertisments, but their search engine is entirely their own. They bought the company Teoma, which had developed it's own competing search technology. That's what all the Jeeves properties use for search now.
I used to work for a company where (originally) my sole position was the $8/hr. Indexing specialist. It was my job to read all the Search Engine news and other junk that was going on so our website would be ranked higher than others.
The only thing I can say for trends is that Google is one of only three that still offers free submission into their indexing survice and that most of the other search-engines started struggling to keep people coming to their site when they started requiring people to pay to be listed with them.
This is another ploy to add a User-friendly item to an Index that just isn't as robust as the competition...namely Google. If all the SEs would stop requiring Joe Smallbusiness paying $150+ in order to submit their website than maybe their listings would have better information and people would start using them again. Maybe it's too late though because Google really is a sweet service.
ask.com started out as a pretty useful service where many questions had a human-prepared answer and if not you got aggregated top results of other engines. Ads had to come in and would be fine if they did it a normal way like Yahoo or Google. But now if you ask a question like "What to visit in Paris" you get no hosted answers and suspicious web links that mostly promote hotels, airline fares and so on. How hard is it to just say Louvre and Notre Dame?
Was there a specific new CEO who did it or did they just gradually went down the tubes?
I remember asking him if he was gay back when I was like 15 and giggling at the results,
I am so fucking old...
With all of the people on this site who railed for years against Windows as a complete OS, instead calling it a GUI shell over DOS, I find it amusing that A9.com gets called, over and over again, a search engine when it's just a wrapper for Google, ads and all.
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"Like its rivals, the company is trying to develop new ways to persuade visitors to return more frequently and stay longer once they're there."
What is nice about Google is that they don't keep you there. Once I have found what I am looking, I don't want to be in the search engine any more.
"Users of the new MyJeeves features will be able to save Web pages by clicking on a clearly marked button next to every link turned up in a search request. The saved links then can be placed in individual folders sorted by topic, such as "maps,""weather" and "shopping." Personal notes can be added."
I can already do this. It's called bookmarks.
'"The next generation of search isn't going to be about who can build the biggest indexes (of Web pages)," said analyst Charlene Li of Forrester Research. "It's going to about finding better ways to personalize search results and modify the way the results are presented."'
I think this is so wrong. I do not like personalized pages. I like to know that when I am looking at something, I am seeing the same thing as other people. Nothing is more frustrating than finding a neat page (or part of a page), and not being able to explain to a friend how to find it because her customizations are different.
Life is like a web application. Sometime you need cookies just to get by.
Let's hope Ask Jeeves isn't the first one to offer a grammar checker.
(So shoot me for being a pedant....)
One feature that I really miss in ALL search engines is the ability to mark a link as "irrelevant to me", so that it doesn't appear in subsequent searches. Kind of: "Don't show this link again" or "Don't show links from this site again".
Why is such a feature desirable? If you want to monitor the Web for an special topic, and you only want to see new results, it's always a pain in the neck to manually skip over old, known links or sites.
Any search engine that implemented this feature would be a breeze!
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that Microsoft wasn't mentioned in the article. I know there's MSN search already and a search engine in the works for Longhorn.
Not to troll, but it is somewhat satisfying that the search engine "business" just might give Microsoft pause for thought on what it's like being the underdog (read: Linux) for once.
Ok, everyone stop.
When are companies going to realize that creating something SIMILAR to google is going to do nothing. The reason google was successful was because it was different, and worked well. All Ask.com and Amazon are doing with these search engines are putting a new frontend on it, and calling it the new way to search. Think of something new, and we may actually take a look.
google has http://google.com/linux askjeeves has no http://askjeeves.com/linux when askjeeves gets a linux section.. i will use it :P
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Suprisingly though, I can ask that same question at the age of 23, and still laugh. :)
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The "save and organize links" is stupid in a web engine: you usually decide that a web page is worth saving after you have read it, and then you are no longer seeing the results of the search. It is far better to have a separate tool like Furl and Spurl, that you activate with a bookmarklet.
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Is this "feature" for users who are too stupid to save Favorites or Bookmarks in their browsers?!
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... "Suck Your Dick Jeeves" is shown in the Related Searches box.
No, you're thinking of www.assjeeves.com
If you read their technology page you'd think they can read your mind, but ask.com cannot generate answers, not even extract them; it simply responds with link lists like everybody else.
In the old days, they had a feedback mechanism in place where you had to choose what you mean from a list of candidate questions that the system believed you wanted to have answered. It was cumbersome and is gone now, but there doesn't seem to be any improved Natural Language Technology in place (yet).
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"FUD. Google and other search engines don't require toolbars or software installation."
:P
If you want to use Google to remember your bookmarks and other features than just searching, it does.
Therefore, you're the FUDmonkey
I swear, Google fans are more fanatic than Apple users.
"... adding new tools for visitors to save and organize links to Web pages they find through the company's online search engine."
Man, I've been waiting to be able to bookmark web pages for AGES! I'm glad someone's finally gone and implemented this, I'll definitely be switching to them now!
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Google is the best because of the no-nonsense search. Nothing is gross looking, there's not ads everywhere. These other companies are missing the mark. Google is simple, fast, and correct. That is why people love it.
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In theory, if Jeeves actually did a good job of understanding natural language--as good as decade-old AI--it would be very useful for certain kinds of searches that are difficult on Google (without using a certain amount of lateral thinking).
For example, there is a series of detective novels by in which the author Jack London, best known as the author of "The Call of the Wild," is a character (the detective, in fact).
If you can't remember the author or title and want to find these books, it is very difficult to do so with Google. Most searches return mishmashes of results about the author Jack London and detective novels by other authors.
If the premise of AskJeeves were correct, it would be perfect for this search.
But, in fact, if you type in "What are some detective novels in which Jack London appears as a character?" you get exactly the same kind of mishmash as Google gives you. AskJeeves isn't, for example, smart enough to go in turn to amazon.com and search in "books" for "Jack London detective" (which returns "The Golden Gate Murders" by Peter King as the second hit).
AskJeeves doesn't seem to do much more than throw away irrelevant words.
If the "natural language" feature of AskJeeves worked, it would be part of my search toolkit. In fact, every time I've used AskJeeves, the results I get are inferior to those I get with Google or Yahoo.
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"Google is not better than us," said Jim Lanzone, an Ask Jeeves senior vice president.
Yes, they are. The search results sucks -- I checked earlier today and it's a search engine with results reminding me of the nineties.
"We are both operating at a world-class level. We just have a different flavor." This free feature is scheduled to be unveiled Tuesday."
See, here's where I think Google is different. If they don't say otherwise, it is a free feature. Simply having to put emphasis on these things show they have a different goal -- not innovating to gain popularity, but trying to gain popularity through marketing. Google don't push Google Groups by yelling "this is cool and best of all free", same with Google News, etc.
You know something might suck if they feel the need to put emphasis on that a feature is free... before it's even available.
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"I can't think of a feature a search engine could add that would overcome Google's interface advantage."
complex/nested/parenthesized booleans, a-la altavista, deja-news, & sql.
"Google is not better than us," said Jim Lanzone, an Ask Jeeves senior vice president. "We are both operating at a world-class level. We just have a different flavor."
This is a very good point. Both of them are excellent at what they do and what they do could be compared to a flavor. Google is much like chocolate and Ask Jeeves is unfortunately Ass. Need I point out which flavor is preferred.
What makes a search engine Stand out to better then any other one they all have there own features that makes them better for something's then others So I ask again How are we is people to decide how to group all the good apples in to one and say this one engine stands out from all the others
"Google is not better than us," said Jim Lanzone
Then, how come I haven't seen "Ask Jeeves" plugin for any browser, yet?
"Jeeves has something that is more polished and more robust " than Amazon's version, said Danny Sullivan
Sun's marketing team has tough competition!!
Ask Jeeves I never liked very much - it has always promised more than it could deliver. When it doesn't actually answer the plain English question more than once or twice, most users (including me) forget about it.
Plus the name is silly and recalls the worst of the dot-com excess. Jeeves? Who cares who Jeeves is? Just "Ask" would be simpler.
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They can outshine Google very easily - by turning belly-up and exposing their squishy, shiny underside already!!
yup, from what I remember anyways
I admit it's been years since I bothered to go to askjeeves. When last I made it a habit to go there every few months, typing any term whatsoever (like "hairball justice") would result in the most prominent links asking me "Would you like to shop for hairball justice online?"
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I love the fact that google gives the chance to view pdf's as text... I hate waiting for Acrobat to load - IMHO it's a POS technology that no business should have used.
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Outside of marketing, you would learn that the model is a generalization of a common pattern, which usually allows for and ignores some cases as unfit.
Search Engine market is exactly a case like this.
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google has http://google.com/microsoft . Does that mean you'll stop using it?
That's actually a good point - although it is a good GUI at that. I really like A9 - the interface is slick and the features are great. Allowing me to keep track of what sites I have seen and when is really nice. Built in bookmarks, images, movies, books search, GuruNet results - almost everything is there. I'd like to see groups and news integrated too - I'm sure it's just a matter of time.
No one cares about organizing links through some website - they can already do that through their browser; not to mention that with browser bookmarks, control rests with the user. This is a stupid feature that hardly anyone will use.
That interview is funny.
And, as I recall, about the par for the course for why google is ranked number 1.
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Just because they said it doesn't mean it's going to happen. Ask jeeves lives and dies by the uninitiated and naive users. Incorporate Ask Jeeves with every new computer browser just as a link in the bookmarks area, and you're bound to double site traffic just by blind luck. It does not mean that they're going to surpass, or even approach google anytime soon.
You're right. I don't know how I missed that one, in fact. I can't count the number of times I've struggled with the "friendly" interface to get it to do what I could have done in seconds with proper boolean logic.
Good call.
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...when you can get *relevant* results in far less time from Google? At least that has been my experience. And to put themselves on a par with Google...I guess one should remember the ant and the rubber tree plant...
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Things like that is exactly why I DON'T like them... Google is a good searchengine, and that's what I want. Nothing more, and nothing less. Bookmarks I have in my browser. And Amazon's new search isn't any better. If I want to search for images, I go to the image search. I don't want them next to my text-searches. Altavista seems to have understood this, as they are now more like Google than they used to.
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While MyJeeves has it's place, I don't see how it is groundbreaking enough to give AJ.com any kind of boost up to Googles current level. Is the race to become the next Google so important to other long time search engines such as Ask Jeeves, that they would just throw something together and make a press release. I use Google daily, but honestly it is because like Yahoo used to be, Google has managed to brand itself as the be all search engine. Google got where it is at by being clean and simple to use. The whole MyJeeves thing while not complicated isn't anything worth bragging about.
Ok, 2 things, first off, your web browser called and it wants its Bookmarks back.
Second, how ironic that this story shows up today when I just discovered Aks Jeeves on Ebaumsworld last night.
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With Amazon's new search engine recently arising, it deifnitely appears to be a critical time for search engines.
I mean the so-called new Amazon search engine is using Google's results (which nobody denied, it even was stated countless times in writings about A9). Hell, however hard I try to convince myself, I can only think of it as an extension or improvement of Google searches, but that as the most.
So why's the hype ? Never mind, that's just a poetic question, no need for an answer.
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Well, I wanted to go check the cache of this article in Ask Jeeves, but they don't cache. I tried to use the Ask Jeeves API to build a caching system myself, but they don't have one.
I'm willing to bet that, once this gets ridiculed on usenet a bit, Ask Jeeves will still not have a way to search usenet.
Oh, well. Some equal things are more equal than others...
while they are at customization, why not have a exclude these pages from further search options, so i can get rid of all the crap in my searches and get down to the good stuff faster
Jeeves should make it be known that they use the really cool AI technology of the CYC project to get you a much better search than simple AI (thats probably used on other search engines) as CYC at least has a better handle on connecting infoprmation aboout items and their releationships to each other.
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Is it just me or does anyone else think that there really isn't a "Search Engine War" going on? All these dumb articles keep talking about searches competing but people seem to just discover the search engine they use most by chance when they start using the web and stick with it.
I think that what he wants is "stemming" -- to get all forms of a given word, and I understand that Google does that automatically.
...appears in, then you're beyond help.
Sincerely,
Jeeves
Here's a link to the page that Ask Jeeves used to return if you asked whether he's gay: http://sp.ask.com/docs/about/isjeevesgay.html
Jeeves. Feh. I've tried it four or five times over a couple of years and never gotten anything useful.
"But all your emitter and collector are belong to me!"
Nobody is going to out-Google Google, not in the near term. But quit I think it's silly how knee-jerk some people are in defending their preferred brand... I also use Google as my primary search engine, but lately I've been using Jeeves more and more. Why? 'Cause Google gets WAY more spam these days from people who target it specifically in order to increase their relevancy rankings. It's like the Microsoft/Apple thing... more idiots target Google, and Jeeves is left relatively "clean". In addition, sometimes Jeeves *gasp* literally just returns more relevant results. Quantity isn't everything. Though personally, I can do without the touchy-feely Jeeves char and layout... so I use their backend directly: http://www.teoma.com
.....this is more like "Mobile Bookmarks" ;)
A: He is a character created by P.G. Wodehouse. Mr. Jeeves work as a gentleman's gentleman for a slacker, Bretie Wooster. Jeeves is one heck of a problem solver. In fact Winston 'The Wolf' Wolfe is a cry baby school boy compared to Jeeves who has an answer to any question you might imagine. Hence, the name for a search engine.
The stories are also dramatized by the ITV with Hugh Laurie as Wooster and Stephen Fry as Jeeves.
Personally, I liked TV dramatizations very much and recommend them to everyone.
Aks Jeeves
They need to work the their technology a little though.
Why worry? Each of us is wearing an unlicensed "nucular" accelerator on his back.
Sig changed for readability by G.W.
Really I suppose the Christmas Island Internet Administration did the trolls a favor because goat.cx is easier to remember than goatse.cx.
If you ask Google if Jeeves is gay, Google will send you off to the old Jovial page -- which still contains the answer.
Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?
BrainBoost seems to trying to fill the void left by AJ.
I asked "Who wrote The Call of The Wild"; the first result "A year later, in 1903, he published The - Call - of - the - Wild . In that same year, London left [...]"
Although, stupidly, the fourth result was "Shakespeare wrote over 150 sonnets!"
Next, I asked "What detective books did Jack London write?" and got nothing useful.
Too bad it's so Goddamned slow, if it was faster it might may a fun toy.
Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?
I don't be axin jeeves a GOT DAM thang!
turns up:
;)
Google
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- Results 1 - 10 of about 724,000 for titties. (0.13 seconds)
Jeeves
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- 1-10 results out of 63,700
"Google is not better than us," said Jim Lanzone
However, Google will still find more titties on the net than Ask Jeeves.
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