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Ask.com (which is found in its UK version as Ask Jeeves), is a question-answering web search engine owned and operated by Dublin, Ireland-based IAC Search & Media Europe, Ltd.[1] 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. Ask.com continues to support this goal, with added support for math, dictionary, and conversion questions. Ask.com is ranked 57th in web traffic world wide and 26th in the USA by Alexa.[2]

The name Jeeves refers to an incomparably capable "gentleman's gentleman" in a series of comic novels by P.G. Wodehouse.[3]

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  1. ↑ Company Information. IAC Search & Media Europe, Ltd. (2012). Retrieved on 2012-07-20.
  2. ↑ Site information for Ask.com. Alexa: The web information company (2012). Retrieved on 2012-07-20.
  3. ↑ About P.G. Wodehouse. IAC Search & Media Europe, Ltd. (2012). Retrieved on 2012-07-20.
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