Ask Jeeves

Ask Jeeves is an Internet information retrieval company founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California. The original software was architected and implemented by Gary Chevsky. The RODA Group, a venture capital firm, were early investors. Rob Wrubel joined the company as CEO in 1998 and led the company until late 2001, when he was replaced by Skip Battle. The current CEO is Steve Berkowitz.

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Internet - 1996 - Garrett Gruener - David Warthen - Gary Chevsky - Rob Wrubel - Skip Battle - Steve Berkowitz

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Ask Jeeves owns a variety of popular web destinations including ask.com, ask.co.uk, ajkids.com, teoma.com, excite.com, myway.com, iwon.com, bloglines.com and several others. The combined traffic to its properties places Ask Jeeves in the top ten parent web companies in the US, as rated by both comScore and Nielsen//NetRatings in September 2004.

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Nielsen//NetRatings - September 2004

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