Ask Jeeves started out as a natural language search engine where users submitted their search queries in the form of a question. Unfortunately for Ask Jeeves, Google's algorithm returned significantly better results and Google and indexed more of the Web.
To compete with Google, Ask Jeeves purchased Teoma, a search technology developed by Rutgers computer scientists, and now uses Teoma as Ask Jeeves' search index. The Teoma results are quite good, as it focuses on the relationship among Web sites in subject-specific communities. Ask Jeeves combines the Teoma search results with news, pictures, weather and shopping tools (a co-branded pricegrabber.com price comparison center).
Teoma does allow for free Web page submissions, but does have a paid submission program.
Paid Submission
Ask Jeeves Site Submit
http://ask.ineedhits.com/
$30/first URL + $18/each additional URL
If you update you site often, then it is probably worth submitting your home page through this paid service. Teoma refreshes paid inclusion Web pages every 7 days.
Web Search Page:
http://www.ask.com
Company Info
http://sp.ask.com/docs/about/index.html
Recent Press Releases
http://www.irconnect.com/askjinc/pages/news.html
Owned By: Ask Jeeves
Stock Symbol & Quote: askj
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