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Earnings: Ask Jeeves
Jan 29, 2003 (Internet.com via COMTEX) -- Tribune's Online Ad Revenues Jump,
Unit Still in Red
Ask Jeeves reported a fourth-quarter profit of $2 million on $22.7 million in
revenues. It was the first quarter the company was both profitable and cash-flow
positive. Like LookSmart, Ask Jeeves said its results benefited greatly from the
paid-listings fees from its partnership with Google. Ask Jeeves raised its
revenue and profit guidance for the rest of the year, saying it expects revenue
growth of 35 percent and pro forma earnings of about $10 million. Eyeblaster
Says It Keeps Growing
Mica Capital Partners LLC Announces Investment Opinion EquityCast.com Stock Focus List
SAN DIEGO, Jan 24, 2003 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- EquityCast.com posts Stock
Performance Update. EquityCast.com is an independent investment Web site
dedicated to providing individual investors with information on the equity
markets in general. Market Performance Alerts: Cirtran Corp. (OTCBB: CIRT) --
Outperform, Applied Micro Circuits (NASDAQ: AMCC) -- Short Term Outperform, Del
Monte Foods (NYSE:DLM) -- Long Term Outperform, Ask Jeeves (NASDAQ: ASKJ) --
Short Term Outperform.
Ask Jeeves Refreshes Teoma
Jan 21, 2003 (Internet.com via COMTEX) -- Ask Jeeves on Tuesday unveiled the
second version of its Teoma search engine, boasting a variety of improvements
that the company hopes will set its community-based search apart from entrenched
competitors like Google.
Teoma 2.0, the first update to the two-year-old search engine, was designed with
improved search relevance, new spell-checking capabilities, more
search-refinement options, and a much bigger index of Web pages.
"What's exciting for us is it's validating the premise" of Teoma, said Paul
Gardi, the search engine's general manager. "Teoma has really grown up from when
we got started."
Emeryville, Calif.-based Ask Jeeves bought the fledgling search technology in
September 2001, after team of computer scientists developed it at Rutgers
University. In April 2002, the company launched Teoma , which is Gallic for
"guide." The search engine was hyped as an alternative to Google because of its
unique approach, which groups results into categories to identify "expert"
resources and offers suggestions for refining searches.
With its search results featured on Ask Jeeves' Ask.com and Ask.co.uk, as well
as on Excite InfoSpace and HotBot, the company boasts it is the third most
widely used search technology, trailing only Google and Inktomi.
"The key to truly understanding a structure like the Web is to get down to the
level of community and then look for the experts," Gardi said.
Gardi said Teoma 2.0 has strengthened its communities by looking at more
information to identify quality communities and provide searchers with better
relevance.
"Communities are the essence of why we're different and why we can deliver
better relevance," he said.
In addition, Teoma 2.0 has a spell-checking feature that identifies misspellings
and offers suggested corrections. Also, the search engine offers Web page
descriptions to help searchers assess their relevance. Finally, the search
engine has advanced search tools that enable a user to refine a query with
specific criteria, such as page location or geographic region. Teoma 2.0
searches can be done in 10 languages.
Gardi said Ask Jeeves had seen a lower abandonment rate since adding Teoma. In
the last quarter, Ask Jeeves site abandonment dropped 28 percent and the user
pick-rate (the number of times a user picks a search result) increased 22
percent.
Teoma faces an uphill battle in the search industry, with a lower-profile name
and a significantly smaller index. Google has ruled the roost for some time,
while Yahoo! showed its commitment to search through its recent $235 million
acquisition of Inktomi. The move by Yahoo! led Forrester Research's Charlene Li
to say that Teoma could be an attractive acquisition target for another large
portal, such as AOL or MSN.
By Brian Morrissey
Emeryville, Calif.-Based Search Engine Hits Milestone with Quarterly Profit
Jan 24, 2003 (Contra Costa Times - Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News via
COMTEX) -- Ask Jeeves Inc. posted its first-ever quarterly profit from
operations Thursday, answering -- for now -- Wall Street skeptics who had once
questioned whether the Emeryville-based Internet search engine could survive the
dot-com bubble.
Ask Jeeves reported net income of $2 million, or 5 cents per share, for the
quarter ended Dec. 31, beating Wall Street projections of 2 cents per share,
according to Thomson First Call.
That compared with a profit of $1.3 million, or 3 cents per share, for the same
quarter a year earlier. But last year's quarterly profit included a one-time
gain of 34 cents per share after the company dissolved Ask Jeeves en Espanol.
Without that gain, the company would have had an operating loss of 31 cents a
share.
CEO Skip Battle said in an interview Thursday that this profit marked the first
of many.
"It's the first of what we believe is continued growth," he said. "We don't
think it's a one-time event.
"Our industry is littered with the wrecks of companies that weren't able to
survive the bubble," Battle added. "There were a number of people who wrote that
we would be one of the ones that wouldn't survive. It's great to be able to put
those doubts and criticism and skepticism behind us."
Investors seemed to agree. Shares of Ask Jeeves, which announced the results
after the market closed Thursday, skyrocketed in after-hours trading, climbing
more than 37 percent, or $1.29, to $4.75.
"It was a major milestone for the company," said Justin Cable, an analyst with
B. Riley & Co. He does not own Ask Jeeves stock or have an investment banking
relationship with the company. "I think their prospects going forward are very
good right now. I think overall the management has really turned around the
company."
Quarterly revenues jumped 48 percent from $15.4 million a year earlier to $22.7
million. They have been boosted by the company's advertising partnership with
Google and its push to court advertisers that pay to have their Web site or
advertisement displayed as part of the results of a user's query. Ask Jeeves
gave up banner advertisements earlier this month on its Web site, and got rid of
pop-up ads last year.
But Ask Jeeves' own advertisements could begin popping up soon. The company,
which hunkered down last year as it tried to cut costs, said it planned this
year to spend more on marketing, including targeted advertisements in the Bay
Area.
"We think we're ready for prime time," Battle said.
Ask Jeeves raised its earnings guidance for the year. It now expects revenues to
grow 35 percent to $100 million this year and pro forma net profit, which
excludes certain charges, of 20 cents per share. The company did not offer any
indication about whether it would show a profit for the year under generally
accepted accounting principles, however.
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Latest news:
Earnings: Ask Jeeves
Jan 29, 2003 (Internet.com via COMTEX) -- Tribune's Online Ad Revenues Jump,
Unit Still in Red
Ask Jeeves reported a fourth-quarter profit of $2 million on $22.7 million in
revenues. It was the first quarter the company was both profitable and cash-flow
positive. Like LookSmart, Ask Jeeves said its results benefited greatly from the
paid-listings fees from its partnership with Google. Ask Jeeves raised its
revenue and profit guidance for the rest of the year, saying it expects revenue
growth of 35 percent and pro forma earnings of about $10 million. Eyeblaster
Says It Keeps Growing
Mica Capital Partners LLC Announces Investment Opinion EquityCast.com Stock Focus List
SAN DIEGO, Jan 24, 2003 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- EquityCast.com posts Stock
Performance Update. EquityCast.com is an independent investment Web site
dedicated to providing individual investors with information on the equity
markets in general. Market Performance Alerts: Cirtran Corp. (OTCBB: CIRT) --
Outperform, Applied Micro Circuits (NASDAQ: AMCC) -- Short Term Outperform, Del
Monte Foods (NYSE:DLM) -- Long Term Outperform, Ask Jeeves (NASDAQ: ASKJ) --
Short Term Outperform.
Ask Jeeves Refreshes Teoma
Jan 21, 2003 (Internet.com via COMTEX) -- Ask Jeeves on Tuesday unveiled the
second version of its Teoma search engine, boasting a variety of improvements
that the company hopes will set its community-based search apart from entrenched
competitors like Google.
Teoma 2.0, the first update to the two-year-old search engine, was designed with
improved search relevance, new spell-checking capabilities, more
search-refinement options, and a much bigger index of Web pages.
"What's exciting for us is it's validating the premise" of Teoma, said Paul
Gardi, the search engine's general manager. "Teoma has really grown up from when
we got started."
Emeryville, Calif.-based Ask Jeeves bought the fledgling search technology in
September 2001, after team of computer scientists developed it at Rutgers
University. In April 2002, the company launched Teoma , which is Gallic for
"guide." The search engine was hyped as an alternative to Google because of its
unique approach, which groups results into categories to identify "expert"
resources and offers suggestions for refining searches.
With its search results featured on Ask Jeeves' Ask.com and Ask.co.uk, as well
as on Excite InfoSpace and HotBot, the company boasts it is the third most
widely used search technology, trailing only Google and Inktomi.
"The key to truly understanding a structure like the Web is to get down to the
level of community and then look for the experts," Gardi said.
Gardi said Teoma 2.0 has strengthened its communities by looking at more
information to identify quality communities and provide searchers with better
relevance.
"Communities are the essence of why we're different and why we can deliver
better relevance," he said.
In addition, Teoma 2.0 has a spell-checking feature that identifies misspellings
and offers suggested corrections. Also, the search engine offers Web page
descriptions to help searchers assess their relevance. Finally, the search
engine has advanced search tools that enable a user to refine a query with
specific criteria, such as page location or geographic region. Teoma 2.0
searches can be done in 10 languages.
Gardi said Ask Jeeves had seen a lower abandonment rate since adding Teoma. In
the last quarter, Ask Jeeves site abandonment dropped 28 percent and the user
pick-rate (the number of times a user picks a search result) increased 22
percent.
Teoma faces an uphill battle in the search industry, with a lower-profile name
and a significantly smaller index. Google has ruled the roost for some time,
while Yahoo! showed its commitment to search through its recent $235 million
acquisition of Inktomi. The move by Yahoo! led Forrester Research's Charlene Li
to say that Teoma could be an attractive acquisition target for another large
portal, such as AOL or MSN.
By Brian Morrissey
Emeryville, Calif.-Based Search Engine Hits Milestone with Quarterly Profit
Jan 24, 2003 (Contra Costa Times - Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News via
COMTEX) -- Ask Jeeves Inc. posted its first-ever quarterly profit from
operations Thursday, answering -- for now -- Wall Street skeptics who had once
questioned whether the Emeryville-based Internet search engine could survive the
dot-com bubble.
Ask Jeeves reported net income of $2 million, or 5 cents per share, for the
quarter ended Dec. 31, beating Wall Street projections of 2 cents per share,
according to Thomson First Call.
That compared with a profit of $1.3 million, or 3 cents per share, for the same
quarter a year earlier. But last year's quarterly profit included a one-time
gain of 34 cents per share after the company dissolved Ask Jeeves en Espanol.
Without that gain, the company would have had an operating loss of 31 cents a
share.
CEO Skip Battle said in an interview Thursday that this profit marked the first
of many.
"It's the first of what we believe is continued growth," he said. "We don't
think it's a one-time event.
"Our industry is littered with the wrecks of companies that weren't able to
survive the bubble," Battle added. "There were a number of people who wrote that
we would be one of the ones that wouldn't survive. It's great to be able to put
those doubts and criticism and skepticism behind us."
Investors seemed to agree. Shares of Ask Jeeves, which announced the results
after the market closed Thursday, skyrocketed in after-hours trading, climbing
more than 37 percent, or $1.29, to $4.75.
"It was a major milestone for the company," said Justin Cable, an analyst with
B. Riley & Co. He does not own Ask Jeeves stock or have an investment banking
relationship with the company. "I think their prospects going forward are very
good right now. I think overall the management has really turned around the
company."
Quarterly revenues jumped 48 percent from $15.4 million a year earlier to $22.7
million. They have been boosted by the company's advertising partnership with
Google and its push to court advertisers that pay to have their Web site or
advertisement displayed as part of the results of a user's query. Ask Jeeves
gave up banner advertisements earlier this month on its Web site, and got rid of
pop-up ads last year.
But Ask Jeeves' own advertisements could begin popping up soon. The company,
which hunkered down last year as it tried to cut costs, said it planned this
year to spend more on marketing, including targeted advertisements in the Bay
Area.
"We think we're ready for prime time," Battle said.
Ask Jeeves raised its earnings guidance for the year. It now expects revenues to
grow 35 percent to $100 million this year and pro forma net profit, which
excludes certain charges, of 20 cents per share. The company did not offer any
indication about whether it would show a profit for the year under generally
accepted accounting principles, however.
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