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To: Elwood P. Dowd who wrote (60542)	5/5/1999 6:15:00 PM
From: rupert1	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

El: Ask Jeeves is a service to help you search on the internet. The idea is that it understands plain English. You type in something like "Where could I find a 7ft white, invisible rabbit". And it offers you answers. It lists answers on all the main search engines, including Alta Vista. Although I thought it was good, at first, I cannot see how it is better and quicker than just going straight to Alta Vista and asking the same question. Perhaps I am not using it properly. Anyway, I see ads for it everywhere. So it is becoming very well known. It makes money by carrying advertisements. But I notice that if you try to save the url of the page you are interested in from Lycos or AV or Yahoo, it saves under the Ask Jeeves url, so every time you pull it up, Ask Jeeves gets another hit. Benm Rosen is one of the owners - I think he has 14%. I have seen reference to a floatation of part or whole of it. If you want to know more, Ask Jeeves. Just say "Who owns Ask Jeeves?" or "Is there a relationship between Ask Jeeves and COMPAQ". It will probably answer "We are just good friends". Here is the link: ask.com

To: Elwood P. Dowd who wrote (60542)	5/5/1999 6:36:00 PM
From: Jimbo Cobb	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 97611

El...Ask Jeeves filed for IPO last week...here's the link... ipocentral.com CPQ Holdings owns 13%... "...The firm also designs specialized search engines for corporate Web sites (customers include Dell Computer). Created by David Warthen and Garrett Gruener in 1996, the site went online in 1997. Chairman Roger Strauch controls about 14%; CPQ Holdings, a subsidiary of Compaq Computer Corp., owns 13%. " Jimbo.