New ask jeeves

[Dji-man]

Ask Jeeves launched today their new Teoma 3.0 that allows users to have "the ability to save and manage search queries and results across the entire search experience." Each search result now have a "save" link listed next to it to allow the user to save the result. see http://www.searchengineguide.com/laycock/002262.html

Am I that old fashion that I just can't see the point of this? :confused: I mean, if I don't know what a site has to offer, why save it? And after visiting it, why go back and save it when I can simply bookmark it? Is it some kind of online bookmark system? If it is, don't you think it would be more useful as a toolbar instead of built-in the SE?

Again, maybe it's just me. After 11+ years on that "Internet thing", it's hard to change the old habits...

[younghistorians]

Sounds like it's trying to catch up with www.a9.com :)

[DarrenC]

Have you also noticed that askjeeves is no longer accepting submissions to the search engine? They have stopped taking paid submissions (or any kind of submission) from the 31 August 2004, but are honoring current site listings.

What does this mean for askjeeves? Has anyone heard any info about the future for them, is it going to be an Yahoo / Inktomi feeder, i.e. results from Yahoo?

[TopSpin]

Does anyone actually use Ask Jeeves? Does anyone actually see meaningful traffic coming from Ask Jeeves? My experience (with nearly ALL of our sites) is that Ask Jeeves doesn't matter... at all. But I would welcome others' thoughts on the matter.

[nadlay]

Never ever had a referral from Ask Jeeves - at least, not that I have noticed.

[PRBot.Com]

I have never received any traffic from that lame site.

[DarrenC]

I have had traffic from the co.uk Ask Jeeves search engine, but very little - let's be honest we could say most of the search engines are "lame" because very little traffic comes from any of them including MSN and Yahoo.

Google in my opinion is years ahead of the competition.

[Zodiac51]

I get a steady (but small) stream of searches from ask.co.uk, so I wouldn't discount it completely.

[Lever]

I see more than 10% of traffic for September so far on one site comes from Jeeves, so I wouldn't nail the lid shut yet ;)

[hey]

I also have never seen a single referrer come from ask jeeves all from google , yahoo , and msn for me :-)

[younghistorians]

The only people that use it are kids these days.

[hey]

Yes that is true that most kids use it because of the askjeeves kids thingy .

[TopSpin]

Well, I guess that kind of confirms my thoughts on Ask Jeeves - the world is tired of butlers.

[eduardomaio]

I also have never seen a single referrer come from ask jeeves all from google , yahoo , and msn for me :-)

I've paid for an inclusion in Ask Jeeves and only two pages of my website are in their Index... Also, it is a paid inclusion that only gave me 2 hits in 4 months... It means nothing!

Go Google! Go Yahoo! Go MSN! It's the natural selection...

[jontelofot]

I get about 30 hits/day from jeeves. I believe more is on it's way though, since their bot has grabbed 13000 pages from my site the last two days! :D

The last crawl bumped yahoo's bot down to 4th place in my logs. Yahoo's slow crawls are getting pretty annoying!

[lowrider14044]

Ask.co and Ask.uk represent about 1.9% of my SE visitors year to date. Not much. I can say that the traffic that does come from them seems to stay a little longer and visit more pages then average.

[mopacfan]

Every little bit counts.

[love123]

this is right i m not getting any traffic from ask,, but who know i got a single leads by ths. we only link to give this site.

[love123]

well i got one link form ask...