Web Search--Excite More Job Cuts, Elimination of Services at Excite@Home
Another 500 jobs cut today along with the closing of a subsidiary. From the press release, "Also effective today, the Excite.com portal will be refining its operations to offer those Internet services most popular with users. It is anticipated that Excite.com portal will continue to provide core applications and content." We will have to wait and see exactly what this means.
Web Search--Ask Jeeves
Source: Computerworld License the Ask Jeeves Software for Your Enterprise, Hello to Jeeves One
From the article, Called JeevesOne, the question-answering software works like the Ask Jeeves Web site, retrieving answers to specific questions asked by the user. Prices for the software offered by the Emeryville, Calif.-based search engine company start at $100,000. Ask Jeeves had been offering the technology as a service to corporate customers such as Dell Computer Corp., Ford Motor Co., and Verizon Communications but said most of its customers preferred a self-service product that they can operate themselves. "We've been offering this as an ASP, but over the past few years we've learned that customers wanted it in-house, inside their firewall, where it is secure. And you just can't have that with an ASP," said Ask Jeeves spokeswoman Michele Mehl. See Also: Official Company Announcement
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