Ask Jeeves Introduces New Features for MyJeeves Personal Search System
OAKLAND, Calif., April 11, 2005 -- Ask Jeeves, Inc. (ASKJ) today introduced an upgrade to MyJeeves, the personal search system seamlessly integrated into the Ask Jeeves search experience at www.Ask.com. Launched last September as the first major search engine to enable users to create their own "Personal Web," MyJeeves allows users to save search queries and results, making it easy to find data they want to use again. With new added features and functionality, MyJeeves is now easier to use, more flexible and more robust.
MyJeeves allows users to manage data saved in their "Personal Web," which can be organized with folders, tagged, searched and shared. The new version of MyJeeves provides more robust information management capabilities, making it easier to collect and organize data, including images. As with previous versions, MyJeeves remains a free service, which requires no registration.
"Our goal is to continue to launch products and features that help people find and use information in a smarter, more intuitive way," said Jim Lanzone, senior vice president of search properties at Ask Jeeves. "This upgrade is an important next step in Ask Jeeves' personalization strategy, continuing to lay the groundwork in fulfilling our vision for search on the Web, the desktop, and beyond. In the future, look for MyJeeves integration with both our desktop product and with Bloglines."
Searchers frequently find data on the Web that they want to reference or use again. In fact, third-party research by the University of Washington shows that 80 percent of searchers bookmark pages that they want to revisit. The research also concluded that over 50 percent of study participants will search again (using the same search terms, if they can remember them) to re-access information they had previously found. One benefit of MyJeeves is helping searchers keep "found things found."
New features include:
-- New Ways to Add Data to MyJeeves
-- Toolbar integration allows searchers to send Web pages directly
to MyJeeves using the Ask Jeeves toolbars for both Internet Explorer
and Firefox. The toolbars make it easy to sign into MyJeeves, save
directly to a folder, save with notes and navigate directly to a
particular MyJeeves folder. Users can also select portions of Web
pages they want to "clip" to MyJeeves.
-- Easily import links to Web pages and images that other MyJeeves
users share via email. By simply clicking "add to MyJeeves" at the
bottom of email messages, users can add those links and annotations
to their own MyJeeves.
-- Import Bookmarks from Internet Explorer, Firebird, and Firefox
with an easy-to-use utility that maintains the folder structure of
bookmarks within MyJeeves.
-- New Support for Images
-- Users can now save links to images to MyJeeves by right-clicking
any image file on the Web or selecting Save on the search results
page in Ask Jeeves Picture Search. Thumbnail views of images are
displayed within MyJeeves for a quick preview and can be easily
tagged.
-- More Robust Information Management
-- MyJeeves now supports hierarchical folders. Trees can be made up
to 7 folders deep so users can organize folders and navigate through
their "Personal Web" the way they want to.
-- Tag any data within MyJeeves to add a user's own searchable meta
data. This is particularly useful when managing image files which
have less contextual information than Web pages. Future versions of
MyJeeves will enable users to sort and search by clicking these
tags, which will also be shareable with others.
A new MyJeeves tutorial is available at
http://sp.ask.com/docs/mj/1.1/tour_intro.html .
About Ask Jeeves, Inc.
Ask Jeeves, Inc. provides consumers and advertisers with information retrieval products across a diverse portfolio of Web sites, portals and desktop search applications. Ask Jeeves' search and search-based portal brands include: Ask Jeeves (Ask.com and Ask.co.uk); Ask Jeeves Japan (Ask.jp, a joint venture); Ask Jeeves for Kids (AJKids.com); Bloglines (Bloglines.com); Excite (excite.com); iWon (iwon.com); Fun We Products (www.funwebproducts.com); My Way (myway.com); and Teoma (teoma.com). Ask Jeeves also owns the search technology Teoma, proprietary natural language processing technology, as well as portal and ad serving technologies. In addition to powering several of the Ask Jeeves brands, the Company syndicates its technologies to help companies increase revenue through powerful search. Ask Jeeves' advertising division, AJinteractive, provides advertisers with targeted tools to reach a broad base of valuable customers. Ask Jeeves, Inc. is headquartered in Oakland, California, with offices throughout the United States, as well as in London, England and Dublin, Ireland. For more information, visit http://www.Ask.com or call 510-985-7400.
Cautionary Note regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include statements regarding future features, functionality and anticipated benefits of Ask Jeeves product and service offerings. Forward-looking statements are not predictions, and actual results, developments or events may differ materially from those referenced in forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause actual results, developments or events to differ from the related forward-looking statements are described in the risk factors described in Ask Jeeves' Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004, subsequently filed Form 10-Qs and other public filings made with the SEC, all of which are available without charge at www.sec.gov. Ask Jeeves undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements for future events, circumstances or developments.
NOTE: Ask Jeeves, AJinteractive, Ask.com, Teoma, MyJeeves, My Way, iWon, Excite and Bloglines are trademarks or registered trademarks of Ask Jeeves, Inc.
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