NewsFactor Network - E-Commerce - Ask Jeeves Enters Desktop Search Fray
Ask Jeeves
will launch its own desktop search tool on Wednesday amid the hoopla over similar announcements from
Google
Microsoft and
Yahoo
The Ask Jeeves desktop application is based on technology it obtained through the acquisition of privately owned Tuckaroo in June
The company expects to offer a search application that works seamlessly between the Web and the desktop in The initial offering however is a beta version that is not integrated with the Ask Jeeves
Teoma
search engine...
Rocky Mountain News: Technology
The danger is that the bold new strategy will instead accelerate the erosion of s core revenue source
To begin with the change pits against big guns Yahoo Inc and Microsoft Corp which in turn are looking over their shoulders wondering what search leader Google Inc will do next
is left looking like the race car in a race that nobody wants to run in anymore said Rob Enderle an industry analyst in San Jose Calif s dead as it exists It has to find a way to become relevant again...
Firm Mergers Are Old Hat
Three huge mergers convulsed the business world last week making
one of the most active periods of corporate consolidation in decades
The multibilliondollar deals are but the latest of tectonic shifts that
sporadically reshape Americas business landscape affecting tens of thousands
of employees changing the fortunes of millions of shareholders and
ultimately touching the wallets of millions more consumers in often
unforeseen ways
The ink was barely dry on Oracle Corps triumphant 103 billion
acquisition of rival PeopleSoft Inc...