{"id":363,"date":"2005-05-29T13:38:19","date_gmt":"2005-05-29T18:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/05\/29\/363\/"},"modified":"2005-06-09T19:59:39","modified_gmt":"2005-06-10T00:59:39","slug":"ask-jeeves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/05\/29\/363\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask Jeeves&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/TECH\/internet\/05\/27\/askjeeves.answer.ap\/index.html\"target=_blank>CNN<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAsk Jeeves unveils &#8216;Web Answer&#8217; feature<br \/>\nFriday, May 27, 2005 Posted: 10:17 AM EDT (1417 GMT)<\/p>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) &#8212; Question: What well-known Internet search engine continues to lag industry leaders no matter how smart it becomes?<\/p>\n<p>Answer: Ask Jeeves Inc.<\/p>\n<p>The Oakland-based company on Thursday is launching its latest effort to win more fans. The hook: A new feature designed to provide more immediate answers to inquiries.<\/p>\n<p>With the change, Ask Jeeves will display a &#8220;Web Answer&#8221; to many of the requests its search engine processes. For instance, if someone enters &#8220;world&#8217;s largest lake&#8221; into Ask.com&#8217;s search box, the top result will include a snippet listing the Caspian Sea, including its size and location.<br \/>\n&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;but not an aerial or satellite image of the location.<\/p>\n<p>Google has that already&#8230;&#8230;or does it?<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nikolasschiller.com\/images\/caspiansea.jpg\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<p>(to get this screen shot, I first went to <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\"target=_blank>http:\/\/maps.google.com<\/a>, selected &#8220;satellite,&#8221; then panned over to the Caspian Sea, then I put &#8220;caspian sea&#8221; in the search box, and hit search)<\/p>\n<p>I expect that in the near future Google will integrate this feature&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via CNN: Ask Jeeves unveils &#8216;Web Answer&#8217; feature Friday, May 27, 2005 Posted: 10:17 AM EDT (1417 GMT) SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) &#8212; Question: What well-known Internet search engine continues to lag industry leaders no matter how smart it becomes? Answer: Ask Jeeves Inc. The Oakland-based company on Thursday is launching its latest effort to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":121,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}