Bryan Jeeves insists his group was only a trustee holding shares for Bancroft's true owners.
Even without Jeeves, Ask.com can still take you anywhere on the net you need to go.
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Every time someone clicks on those listings on Ask Jeeves' Web sites, Google pays Ask Jeeves.
Venture Frogs was a backer of the search engine Ask Jeeves, which went public in July.
This is not PG Wodehouse, with Jeeves the butler easily thinking rings around his Lord.
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Ask Jeeves realized that pop-up ads and banner ads weren't working, so it got rid of them late last year.
Ask Jeeves began as a search engine to answer plain English questions, with its staff diligently anticipating what would be asked.
Jeeves retired in 2006, and so did the original Ask Jeeves name.
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Ask Jeeves says that puts the company third behind Google and Inktomi.
Jeeves, the former mascot of struggling search engine Ask.com, may be dead.
After all, Google had buried early competitors such as AltaVista and Ask Jeeves solely with the accuracy and usefulness of its search results.
Cathcart has testified that Bancroft was owned by Alexander Jeeves and his father, Bryan Jeeves, chairman of the Jeeves Group, a Liechtenstein-based offshore financial services company.
Jeeves' enterprise-software business, designed to help businesses interact with customers, pulled in 15% of revenue and has the dimmest prospects for growth right now, Battle says.
In Right Ho, Jeeves, Anatole is described as a tubby little man with a moustache of the outsize or soup-strainer type, which turns up or droops down depending on mood.
Dozens of smaller dot.coms, from Ask Jeeves to Respond.com, are also selling private-label versions of their technologies to big companies, largely to move away from over-dependence on consumer revenues.
"Searches for World Trade Center at places such as MSN Search, Ask Jeeves and Yahoo, for example, brought back no listings relevant to the current catastrophe, " said Danny Sullivan, editor of Search Engine Watch.
Finally, I wondered how Jeeves is doing.
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Tony Macklin, spokesman for Ask Jeeves, said the results reflected its own research which showed that people use different search engines because the way the sites gather information means they can provide different results for the same query.
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Being able to prove a business concept in a hurry, even if the product isn't perfect, is especially attractive to investors, says Peter Bell, general partner with Highland Capital Partners, a venture firm in Lexington, Mass. that staked Digg, Mapquest and Ask Jeeves.
The company in some ways typified the excesses of the dot-com era: It went so far as to advertise with stickers on apples and bananas, sent Jeeves-type butlers to busy public places at lunch and leased tens of thousands of square feet of office space, expecting no end to its growth.
Gone is the dark and dismal interior, the indifferent service, and - a terrible shame this - the legendary doughnut bowl, whose stale contents could once be bought and pelted at fellow patrons for exactly 1, 942 Czech crowns (just over 100 dollars), a homage to an incident in the classic 1942 novel Saturnin, a sort of Czech Jeeves and Wooster.
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