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Ask.com (http://www.ask.com)
Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves) is the last crawler-based search engine we are going to speak about. Ask.com supplies its search results to the Iwon search engine and is a member of the Google family of search engines.
It was designed as Ask Jeeves, where “Jeeves” is the name of the “gentleman’s personal gentleman”, or valet (illustrated by Marcos Sorensen), fetching answers to any question asked. On September 23, 2005 the company announced plans to phase out Jeeves and on February 27, 2006 the character was disassociated with Ask.com (according to the Wikipedia).
Ask.com has acquired DirectHit and Teoma which were big players in the search industry too. DirectHit was a search engine that provided results based on click popularity. Therefore, sites that received the most clicks for a particular keyword were listed at the top. Teoma was also unique due to its link popularity algorithm. Teoma claimed that it produces well ordered and relevant search results by initially eliminating all the irrelevant sites and then considering the popularity of only those that relate to the search subject in the first place.
Optimizing for Google will guarantee your appearance on the Ask.com results along with the other large engines of Google’s family (AOL, Netscape and Iwon).
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