Search engine Ask Jeeves said today that it will take on market leader Google by using a newly developed search technology which it claims is superior.Whereas search engines rate sites by the popularity of other sites linking to and from them, the technology from Ask Jeeves rates the source of each link. Using this method it hopes to find communities of information rather than just the most popular sites.
“The search engine market is now down to four sites: Google, Ask Jeeves, Yahoo and Microsoft,” Tony Macklin, vice president for European products at Ask Jeeves, told vnunet.com. For more click here.