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architected?

Hi,

I am new to Wikipedia. How are you guys able to responde to a new article, and my changes so quickly -- do you get notifications of whenever anything in wikipedia changes?

Thanks.

Everything that happens in Wikipedia shows up in Special:Recentchanges. Recent changes is a link on the left side of the site, under the heading "Browse". Welcome to Wikipedia! If you make an account, you will be able to customize your own user page, and people will be able to leave messages for you on your talk page. I hope you decide to stay!

--cprompt 07:50, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Million pound question

A few years ago, maybe about 5, they did an advertising campaign where if somebody asked jeeves a specific question, they win £1,000,000. Does anybody remember what this was? Or prefrably, what the question to be asked was?

[edit] New logo? Secondary logo?

I recently went to one of Ask Jeeves' astroturfing websites, www.information-revolution.org[www.information-revolution.org], and the Ask Jeeves logo has changed slightly. Now there's the words "The Other Search Engine" underneath it. Should this be included in the article, or should we just show the new logo in the section about the Jeeves' astroturfing?SteveSims 06:15, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kanisa

This article links to "Kanisa" a company who bought Ask.com's search technology. The linked Wikipedia article redirects to "church", which I doubt is the proper destination.

As it stands now, there is no article for Kanisa in any context, be it church-related or for the software distributor, which is briefly mentioned elsewhere in an article for software firms. Seeing as rhis is Wikipedia, you could request on a talk page such as that for Self service software vendors for the creation of a Kanisa article. It never hurts to write an article of some length about the company, provided it meets Wikipedia's guidelines.

-Alan 05:26, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] u ernt the only one

u rent the only one who is new to this help me out

[edit] smiley central

i think there should be something about smiley central, program with a lot of spyware inside. i cannot write it because i don't speak english very good :) --Running 01:39, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

someone wants to..*sniffles*....delete my page.

I very much agree with this. -Lciaccio (talk) 23:30, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Report

[edit] Jeeves

Why did they get rid of Jeeves? I really don't see what's the point of getting rid of him. It's like the Google logo losing it's colours.

[edit] They killed Jeeves!

Oh why is the world so cruel? They say hes on vacation or retired, but I know better! We knew you well, Jeeves! 199.224.81.132 02:42, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Actually "they" didn't kill Jeeves, but the algorithm did. JesseRafe 18:07, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

why does it matter

[edit] Adding Good Resource Links

What should the criteria be for a good resource link? I added a link for advertisers to research ask as an advertising partner. Thoughts?

[edit] Features of the search engine

Hi! I think there should be some mentioning about the features that ask.com has compared to e.g. Google, as these are the only reason why ask is number 3 or 4 in search engines (after Google, Yahoo and possibly MSN). These features are things like narrow/expand your search, the inclusion of Wikipedia in results, … lolItalic text' $I n s e r t f o r m u l a h e r e$ == history == _{Subscript text $[[M e d i a : I n s e r t f o r m u l a h e r e]][[I m a g e : E x a m p l e . j p g]]$} what year did the tinanic sink? --71.109.239.23 04:13, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Hit an iceberg at 11:40 PM on April 14, 1912. Sank on April 15, 1912, at 2:20 a.m.; wreck discovered in 1985 by Robert Ballard.

Mattjblythe 00:08, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] jeeves' retirement

i edited the jeeves' retirement section based on reviewing the website, which said nothing about a competition. also, there were several items listed, and nowhere did it say that the winner was world cruise.

Mattjblythe 00:07, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] mc hammer

did hammer ever sign to a contract or have any affiliation with death row

[edit] "Redirect" to information-revolution.org

The current article claims: "... users typing "google" into the ask.com search engine would be redirected to the information-revolution.org site. [4]"

The quoted source says: "Doing a search on Ask - and only Ask - for "google" returns the above site as the first result."

Returning a search result is not the same thing as a redirect and calling it so is misleading here. For example, www.guugle.org redirects to www.google.com, but Ask.com never redirected to information-revolution.org in response to a query.

Disclosure: I do work for Ask.com in the US, and so although my job is completely unrelated to this campaign in the UK, I do not want to edit the article myself. Can the author of that paragraph correct it?

206.80.1.253 19:56, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Not just in London : [1] --68.161.143.45 02:51, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Done. Any comment from those inside the company??? There are new billboards in London which don't reference information-revolution but just have a link to Ask.Com. --PaulWicks 08:29, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Algorithm

I'm seeing lots of advertising about how the algorithm killed Jeeves. The article probably should address this some how. Mathiastck 19:57, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Well, apparently their technology has been changing recently, but there aren't any details I know of.

[edit] AskEraser

we should write an article about this recent press release. looks like its going to be big.

http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/07/20/ask_unveils_askeraser/

[edit] Jr. vs II

What is the difference between" John James Smith Jr. and John James Smith II

12.213.112.56 23:37, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:AskLogoNew07.PNG

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BetacommandBot 13:00, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ask Jeeves book

Does anyone else remember a so-called "book of answers" that Ask Jeeves published a few years back in paperback? It was meant to be an informative collection of "intriguing" questions and their answers as mundane as "What is that new car smell?" (as advertised on the back cover). It's possible they were the more frequent questions from the site. It was called, "Just curious, Jeeves."

Also, this article fails to clarify the fact that the original web address was Askjeeves.com. It gives the impression it was never any address besides Ask.com and that solely the company name existed as Ask Jeeves. If anyone shares my nostalgia (though it is still available on Amazon.com) would you deem it worth adding to the article? And, forgive me for asking, but why is this talk page riddled with seemingly irrelevant questions. What does MC Hammer have to do with this article?

Thanks, Alan 24.184.184.177 (talk) 04:23, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] COI / Reads like an ad for the company

A search on WikiScanner reveals edits from the company's domain, and most of the article reads like prom otional material for the company. This is especially notable for a company whose business practices are widely questioned. I have reverted a part of the page that was critical, adding a reference. However, it appears as if much work remains to make this POV-neutral. -Lciaccio (talk) 23:29, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:JEEVES2.JPG

Image:JEEVES2.JPG is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 22:18, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:JEEVES3.JPG

Image:JEEVES3.JPG is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:JEEVES5.JPG

Image:JEEVES5.JPG is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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[edit] Suggestion on moving forward.....

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/03/05/ask.makeover/index.html

Any ideas?

SDSandecki (talk) 01:19, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Two things:

The AP story is slightly incorrect, as Ask indicates it won't be as women-specific as the AP reports.
What are you asking? How to make note of this in the article? Likely mention it in the lead, and then add it to the history section.

--ZimZalaBim ^talk 02:02, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

I was looking for some thoughts on it before making any edits, I'm glad you pointed out that article. SDSandecki (talk) 02:40, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

What web site can I go to find out stuff about the city of Floence Ms? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.65.169.160 (talk) 23:54, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Ask.com to Acquire Lexico, Owner of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com 92.228.228.88 (talk) 23:01, 5 June 2008 (UTC)