Ask Jeeves Unveils My Jeeves & Local Search Technology

Ask Press Release 21/09/04

Ask Jeeves, Inc. (ASKJ), a leading provider of information retrieval brands, technologies, and advertising services, today announced a series of new products for its flagship search engine, Ask Jeeves (www.Ask.com). The new products include the MyJeeves personal search system and robust local search.

"This launch immediately delivers a better experience for our users in several important areas, and lays the groundwork for us to fulfill our vision for search in new ways -- on the Web, on the desktop, and beyond," said Jim Lanzone, senior vice president of search properties. "Ask Jeeves customer satisfaction is at an all time high as we continue to launch products and features that help people find, and use, information in a smarter, more intuitive way."

MyJeeves enables people as they search to create their own "Personal Web": a compilation of search queries and search results that they can easily save, categorize into folders, annotate, and share. A free service, MyJeeves is seamlessly integrated into the Ask Jeeves search experience and does not require registration. This capability is not available on any other major search engine.

"MyJeeves saves time and minimizes frustration: It eliminates the need to repeat searches and allows users to easily find things again," said Daniel Read, vice president of product management at Ask Jeeves, Inc. "Every Ask Jeeves user can immediately take advantage of MyJeeves to begin creating their own Personal Web. Users do not need to pay a fee, install any software application, select settings and preferences, or register for anything."

MyJeeves allows users to save search results simply by clicking a Save button located next to each search result on Ask Jeeves. Once saved, MyJeeves users can easily organize or group items into folders, print them, share them via email, and add notes to create their own descriptions of Web pages. The newly resulting list of documents is searchable within MyJeeves (distinct from the overall Web index), thus creating a personal Web index. A user's notes about a page become searchable metadata for each page, improving relevance, especially important as an individual's volume of saved information grows.

While not required, registration for MyJeeves provides additional advantages. Registered users can access MyJeeves from any Internet-enabled computer with a password and receive additional storage for their personal Web documents. These users also benefit from increased privacy via password protection. In addition, MyJeeves automatically saves each search query registered users execute, an option which can be toggled on or off, saving this useful data for later. Registration requires only a password and an active email address. Providing a username is optional.

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