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December 27, 2005

Ask Brands Ask France Without Jeeves

Let me start off by saying that I do not know exactly when Ask launched its French version of the engine. It might have been today, I do not see any press releases on it. But there is a brand new thread on the topic at Cre8asite forums named Ask in France where member Nadir points out the Ask logo on http://fr.ask.com/ does not have the "Jeeves" portion in the logo. It is not only Ask France, it is on Ask España launched a few months ago and also no "Jeeves" name on Ask.jp について. However, "Jeeves" is written out at http://uk.ask.com/ and all of them have the Jeeves character logo.

I wish I would have known if the Japan and Mexician versions had Jeeves written out when they launched. Anyway, it is a subtle thing to notice and it may be part of the Ask Jeeves transition to be known as just Ask.

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Forum discussion at Cre8asite Forums.



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posted rustybrick in Ask.com at December 27, 2005 8:56 AM Comments (5)

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Ask France Beta was launched on december 14:
http://www.netwizz.net/blog/2005/12/14/200-ask-jeeves-france-est-arrive

 

Posted by Michel at December 27, 2005 10:43

They also released the Dutch version of Ask a few days ago. (without any marketing) See: http://nl.ask.com/
Also without the 'Jeeves'.

 

Posted by Remi van Beekum at December 27, 2005 10:54

there is also the the italian version,
everyone say when is released?

 

Posted by emanuele at December 27, 2005 12:05

And a German version:
http://de.ask.com/
Looks like they finally target western Europe like they promised at the SES in february.

 

Posted by Remi at December 27, 2005 13:19

Yes, Ask was actually launched on Dec 14th, http://www.echosdunet.net/news/index.php?id_news=1712

As for the "missing" Jeeves, I do think that it's because Jeeves is an English name only, and people wouldn't have understood why a search engine is called "Ask Jeeves". I think ask.com is definitely the best way to go for their worldwide expansion.

 

Posted by Nadir at December 27, 2005 16:03

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