Jeeves and Teoma Retire

The Ask.com Blog: Another Brand Retirement of Note: Teoma

Jeeves's retirement from Ask Jeeves has been well publicised - the search engine now answers to http://www.ask.com/ or http://www.ask.co.uk/ - but many searchers may be unaware that Teoma has also been put out to grass. You are now redirected to Ask. Ask Jeeves acquired Teoma in late 2001 since when it has been the technology underlying Ask Jeeves. Many of the Teoma features are now in Ask; the only feature that is not is the "Resources", or hubs, pages. Ask say that given that this receives less than a 1% click-rate, they don't think many people will miss it.

If you were put off Ask in the early days do give it another try. It has improved immensely over the last couple of years with some very useful features such as Zoom, which suggests ways of broadening or narrowing down your search. It also has a very good image search option.