Through patented, award-winning search technology and unique natural-language
capabilities, Ask Jeeves Web Properties provide consumers with a simple and fast way
to find relevant answers to their everyday questions. The Ask Jeeves Keyword
Network, the Company's advertising services network, provides businesses with
innovative, targeted and effective tools for reaching a broad base of highly valuable
customers.
Ask Jeeves' search technologies and services are delivered through destination sites at
Ask.com, AJKids.com and Teoma.com. In addition, they syndicate their technologies
to portals, infomediaries, and content and destination sites to help companies increase
e-commerce and advertising revenue through powerful search.
The Ask Jeeves Keyword Network provides marketing solutions designed to help
companies build brand awareness, drive qualified prospects and increase transactions.
This is made possible through a combination of advertising, paid placement and paid
inclusion opportunities available through Ask.com, AJKids.com, Teoma.com and
across our network of search partners. The Ask Jeeves Keyword Network offers
companies a compelling mixture of broad reach, keyword targeting and the most
comprehensive suite of search based ad products available.
Teoma, the newest member of the Ask Jeeves family, is a leading provider of next
generation search technologies. Teoma's search technology uses highly advanced
algorithms to process and organize relevant and authoritative Web sites in real time. In
addition to licensing Teoma's search technology on Ask.com and across portals and
content sites, Teoma operates as a pure search engine at Teoma.com. Since integrating
Teoma's search technology on Ask.com, user satisfaction has increased by 25 percent. |