Forbes.com: Ask Jeeves Hoping to Outshine Google
Forbes.com: Ask Jeeves Hoping to Outshine Google: "Ask Jeeves Inc. is adding new tools for visitors to save and organize links to Web pages they find through the company's online search engine. "Ask Jeeves has a long way to go to catch up, though. Through July, Google handled about 36 percent of Internet searches, with Yahoo at 29 percent, according to comScore Media Metrix, a research firm. Ask Jeeves' various search engines, which include Teoma, Excite and iWon, held a 6 percent share.
The latest features aren't technological breakthroughs. A9.com, an upstart from Internet retail giant Amazon.com Inc., just last week introduced a similar feature for visitors to save Web links inscribed with personal notes. A $29.95 software program called Onfolio also helps collate and classify Web sites.
Ask Jeeves is touting its service as more user-friendly because it doesn't require the installation of any toolbars or software programs.
"The next generation of search isn't going to be about who can build the biggest indexes (of Web pages)," said analyst Charlene Li of Forrester Research. "It's going to about finding better ways to personalize search results and modify the way the results are presented."
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