Chris Sherman
07-01-2004, 06:16 PM
From the press release:
The partnership enables Ask Jeeves UK http://www.Ask.co.uk to launch Ask Jeeves Product Search, the latest in a series of “smart” searching tools designed to make it easier and more intuitive to find information online.
Ask Jeeves’ Product Search is powered by a combination of product search technology from Kelkoo, Ask Jeeves search technology, Teoma and Ask Jeeves natural language processing algorithms. Ask Jeeves is the first UK search engine to integrate actual product results, including product images and prices, into the reply page of its search results.
It's not unusual for Ask to partner with others -- PriceGrabber powers its US product search, for example.
What is unusual is that Kelkoo, a European shopping search service, was recently acquired (http://www.kelkoo.co.uk/content/content.jsp?catId=601&url=/content/press/releases/kelkooacquiresyahoo.html&left=/content/general/infonav.jsp) ...
...by a small little company you may have heard of, called Yahoo.
The plot thickens...
The partnership enables Ask Jeeves UK http://www.Ask.co.uk to launch Ask Jeeves Product Search, the latest in a series of “smart” searching tools designed to make it easier and more intuitive to find information online.
Ask Jeeves’ Product Search is powered by a combination of product search technology from Kelkoo, Ask Jeeves search technology, Teoma and Ask Jeeves natural language processing algorithms. Ask Jeeves is the first UK search engine to integrate actual product results, including product images and prices, into the reply page of its search results.
It's not unusual for Ask to partner with others -- PriceGrabber powers its US product search, for example.
What is unusual is that Kelkoo, a European shopping search service, was recently acquired (http://www.kelkoo.co.uk/content/content.jsp?catId=601&url=/content/press/releases/kelkooacquiresyahoo.html&left=/content/general/infonav.jsp) ...
...by a small little company you may have heard of, called Yahoo.
The plot thickens...