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GoFish Licenses Multimedia Search Engine to Ask Jeeves

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on November 22, 2005 - 11:04am.
San Francisco - GoFish Technologies announced on Tuesday that search engine Ask Jeeves has signed a content licensing agreement that will integrate GoFish's multimedia search engine for entertainment-related information on Ask Jeeves. San Francisco-based GoFish's multimedia index includes links to over 100 million audio and video files available on the Web.
tags: Multimedia | GoFish | Jeeves |

BitTorrent to Launch Search Engine with Ask Jeeves Sponsored Links

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 23, 2005 - 6:55am.
San Francisco -- The developers behind the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing application plan to soon launch an advertising-supported search engine that will index the movies, songs, software and other files available on the network, Wired News reported. Sponsored links on the search engine will be provided through Ask Jeeves. The search engine, expected to launch within two weeks, will on one hand make it easier for many users to find files on BitTorrent, while at the same time providing a potential target to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), which has recently sued operators of BitTorrent servers. Without a centralized index, like the one the search engine will create, the MPAA and others have thus far only been able to target individuals operating the various servers across the world that host "torrent" files. "One of the differences between BitTorrent and Kazaa has been that there's a central Kazaa company... There hasn't been a similar centralized service or site associated with BitTorrent, and now there is," Stanford law professor Mark Lemley told Wired News.
tags: BitTorrent | Search Engine | Jeeves | Sponsores |

Search Engine Ask Jeeves Acquires Excite Europe

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 20, 2005 - 7:10am.
Oakland -- Ask Jeeves, the provider of Internet search and advertising services, said on Friday that it has paid an undisclosed amount to acquire Excite Italia, the operator of Excite Europe, a network of pan-European portal properties, from Tiscali. The move comes a little more than year after Ask Jeeves acquired the U.S.-operated Excite.com portal. "This deal is a next step in Ask Jeeves' European expansion strategy," said Steve Berkowitz, the CEO of Ask Jeeves. The deal will give Ask Jeeves ownership of Excite's Internet domains throughout Europe as well as control of existing portal offerings in several major European markets including Spain, Italy, France, the U.K., Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. Excite has offered search and portal services since 1995.
tags: Europe | Search Engine | Jeeves | Excite |