Ask Jeeves at a Glance
Size
Spider Class
Meta Tag support
Frame support
Image Map support
Alt Text support
HTML Comments
Url Searching
Embedded Directory
Submission URL
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200 Million web pages (Approx)
Shallow
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Submit
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As one of the fastest growing web properties on the Internet, Ask Jeeves Inc. provides consumers and advertisers with world-class information retrieval products across a diverse portfolio of Web sites, portals and desktop search applications. Ask Jeeves’ search and search-based portal brands include: Ask Jeeves (Ask.com and Ask.co.uk), Ask Jeeves for Kids (AJKids.com), iWon (iwon.com), Teoma (teoma.com); My Way (myway.com), Excite (excite.com); My Search (mysearch.com) and My Web Search (mywebsearch.com). Ask Jeeves also owns the world class search technology Teoma, a proprietary natural language processing technology, as well as portal and ad serving technologies. In addition to powering several of the Ask Jeeves brands, the Company syndicates its technologies to help companies increase revenue through powerful search.
SUBMISSION POLICY
Ask Jeeves' submission policy rather well buried in their Submission Pages but you can find if you look under "Terms and Conditions".
Words used to describe the pages in the meta tags and Title tag, must accurately describe it's content. The website must contain visible text and not only graphics.
In addition to that, cloaking is not allowed, and no more than three redirection urls are allowed for the website to load. The Search Engine does not accept online gaming sites
or online pharmacies, neither any illegal content. For the best results, the following Web publishing techniques should be avoided:
- Web pages containing deceptive text
- Web pages with intentionally misleading links
- Web pages in Groups with deceptive self linking referencing patterns
- Web pages with off-topic or excessive keywords
- Web pages with duplicate content
- Web pages that show different content than the spidered pages
- Fabricated pages designed to lead users to other web pages
- Metadata that does not accurately describe the content of a web page
- Web pages that misuse affiliate or referral programs
Please note these are only a few examples of what is considered spamming. There are many more types that are not illustrated and will not be permitted on Teoma / Ask Jeeves' index. Any violation may result in the removal and/or exclusion from the index.
In addition to these html restrictions, Ask Jeeves says further (ref here);
- The page must be accessible by the spider and not be on a secure server
- The url may not contain any funny ASCII characters
- The url may not be more than 255 characters long
- The url may not use frames to load
- The url may not use javascript to reload in a substitute url
- The url should not have brand name references
- Once the url has been indexed, changes to the content that do not meet the above mentioned requirements, may require purchasing of additional urls
Ask Jeeves bought the Teoma database in September 2001 from which time it has been running the Teoma site in beta. It uses the Teoma database for it's search results and boasts that its search technology is just as good as Google's.
The Teoma search submission is a paid inclusion, where it is $30 dollars for your first url, and thereafter charged accordingly. Free url submissions are not possible, although the spider does crawl through the world wide web from time to time.
HTML FACTS
The Ask Jeeves Spider is not a deep traveling spider.
It indexes all the visible text, plus provides support for ALT tag text in image statements, Meta Keywords and Description tags. Ask Jeeves does not read HTML comments.
RANKING METHODS
Ask Jeeves likes to rank sites that have a good Title and a good description in the document information. In addition to that, they use on page text for their ranking methods. The search engine likes good quality text content, and will rank a site with text higher than one without text.
It does not mind graphics, as long as there is a fair amount of text along with the graphics.
SUMMARY
As one of the nicest search engines to use to ask a question, Ask Jeeves should definitely be considered when making search engine submissions. It is strict on the pages it receives in it's index and does not allow gambling, pharmaceutical or illegal content in it's search engine. Ask Jeeves does not allow hidden text or text that is only slightly visible.
The Search Engine uses paid inclusion submissions.
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