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2. Ask.com creation. Ask.com was founded in Berkeley, California. David Warthen, veteran software developer. Garrett Gruener, venture capitalist at Alta Partners and founder of Virtual Microsystems.

3. Ask.com is a search engine. Search engine – a way to collect information. Ask.com was originally known as Ask Jeeves. “Jeeves” is the name of the “gentlemen's personal gentlemen” fetching answers for any question asked. The original idea behind Ask Jeeves was to allow users to get answers to questions posed in everyday, natural language, as well as traditional keyword searching.

4. What is its purpose now? Ask.com still answers to questions asked, but with added support for math, dictionary, and conversation questions. It was renamed in 2005, company phased out Jeeves. Answer Farms, Smart Answers, and DAF technologies allow users to get information without clicking through to multiple sites. Ask.com contains almost 400 million pairs of questions and answers, with new questions added weekly.

5. Striving to reach their goal. Every day, millions of people go to their web with questions – personal and professional, easy and difficult, serious and silly. At Ask.com their goal is to answer each question with fast, reliable, trustworthy results. That is what their best at.

6. Oakland, California. Based in Oakland, California. Ask.com has offices throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Ask.com branches in Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Ask.com is wholly owned business of IAC (Nasdaq: IACI) Ask.com mobile, Ask Kids, Dictionary.com, and Bloglines are businesses under the Ask.com brand.

7. Since 1996. It was founded in 1996. Ask.com is number two on The 10 Best Search Engine of 2011. Arguably cleaner and easier to read than Google or Yahoo! or Bing, and the results groups seem to be more relevant. It is international. Denmark, Portland, France, Japan are some of the few countries that have Ask.com.

8. How does it work? Ask.com is a web crawler. Works to find answers to questions by searching the web. They have their own PPC program like Google, Yahoo and Bing, their advertiser base is smaller than the other search engines they have an ad sharing agreement with Google. So, if they do not have an ad or at least an ad that pays more than what they could get from Google, then a Google AdWords ad will appear. If they have an a direct advertiser with a relevant ad and it pays them more than what they could get from a Google AdWords ad then the Ask.com direct ad will show.

9. How healthy is it? Ask.com is 2 nd on the 10 best search engines list. Trusted source for questions. A team of experts. Thousands of questions covering many topics. Questions are organized by topic. Best answers to questions asked in everyday life.