Ask Jeeves Launches Proprietary Image Search Technology

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Ask Jeeves, Inc., a provider of information retrieval technologies, yesterday announced the launch of its first proprietary image search technology, available on Ask Jeeves at pictures.ask.com.

The new technology debuts Ask Jeeves' first internally-created index of Web images, further improvements to its image search ranking algorithms and new Zoom related search suggestions specifically for image searching. Collectively, these improvements deliver a superior image search experience, helping people find the pictures they are looking for faster. Image Search accounts for 16% of all searches on Ask Jeeves.

The image search technology utilizes Ask Jeeves' unique algorithmic search into topic areas and determines the authoritativeness of pages and images among their topic community. Ask Jeeves combines this methodology with new sophisticated image recognition technologies to further increase relevance. These technologies measure a variety of image attributes, -- This message may have been cut off and the rest will only be shown to members. To become a member, click here --