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I'd never heard of Watson, but the search tool is using Ask's retirement of Jeeves in a clever viral marketing effort.

With the farewell to Jeeves festivities taking place today at Search Engine Strategies, Ask.com has gone live today with its new name and look.

Ask.com has cleaned up its homepage by removing the long-time iconic butler figure and adding search tools in an Ajax navigation box to the site.

Are you a fan of easter eggs? Not the chocolate kind, but the kind hidden away in web sites or software.

The oft-rumored removal of the iconic butler Jeeves from the Ask.com search engine has arrived, with the well-dressed embodiment of discreet and exemplary service contemplating his post-search engine life.

The Oakland-based search engine has been working on its Continental flair, by adding a research center in Italy to complement the debut of two new search sites in Europe.

A new search engine from Ask Jeeves lets users delve into the world of image search, via a new dedicated picture search technology from the company.

Ever since Ask Jeeves announced they were tweaking the image search results offered by their partner Picsearch, we have suspected they were working on their own technology.