Ask Jeeves Extends Advertising Relationship with Google Through 2007 (http://www.irconnect.com/askjinc/pages/news_releases.html?d=61370)

Ask Jeeves, Inc. (ASKJ), a leading provider of information retrieval brands, technologies, and advertising services, today announced that it has extended its relationship with Google as a provider of sponsored advertising links on Ask Jeeves' global search and portal brands through 2007. The extension renews the agreements with the Company's flagship sites, Ask Jeeves (Ask.com) and Ask Jeeves UK (Ask.co.uk). Google's sponsored links product complements Ask Jeeves' own suite of advertising products, including its proprietary paid listings product and branded ad units.

Hardly a surprise for Ask Jeeves. I heard that they make very good money out of this deal per click ;)

Exactly and they have parts that they place their own ads in only when it pays more than what they get from Google... starting prices for bids are determined by what they are getting from Google!