Ask Jeeves Introduces Desktop Search Application

[rustybrick]

Here is the top portion of the announcement, for some reason they have not yet posted it at their press center (but I did get it through my email subscription), full press release can be found at prnewswire. In addition, the download page says coming soon...

EMERYVILLE, Calif., Dec 15, 2004 -- Ask Jeeves(R), Inc. (ASKJ), a
leading provider of information retrieval brands, today introduced a
beta desktop search application. Fast, relevant, and flexible, Ask
Jeeves Desktop Search(TM) makes it easy for people to find information
on their computers or the Internet. The product is available free for
download this afternoon at http://download.ask.com/desktop.

[KeywordMonkey]

Hmm, not the most co-ordinated of releases - waiting for somebody on the West Coast to wake up and update the page perhaps?

How are they going to try and better Google et. al. - link it to My Jeeves perhaps?