If you really have nothing else to do this Friday afternoon, then you can head over to the Ask Jeeves search engine homepage and play around with costume options for a middle-aged man.

With the boast of 100,000 different outfit combinations,...

Ask.com has brought back Jeeves the butler to its online search engine service after 3 years in retirement.

The search engine has given the character a Framestore, 3D makeover stating that users of the site missed his "friendly, human touch".

It dropped it's iconic butler at the beginning of 2006, and has since added new applications to its search website, but Ask has now opted for a complete rehaul in a bid to gain fans.

The team behind the search engine, which is up against...

Ask.com has now bought the reference websites, dictionary.com and thesaurus.com.

The web search company, which is part of IAC or InterActiveCorp, has closed an all-cash deal to acquire Lexico Publishing Group LLC, which owns both of the...

CNN reports that in a "dramatic about-face", Ask.com is quitting its attempts to outshine search leader Google and will instead focus on a narrower market, specifically married women looking for help managing their lives.

The new direction...

Ask.com is claiming to be the first ever search engine to provide its users with privacy controls over their online searches.

Ask Eraser allows users to delete their search activity by erasing all future search queries and associated cookie...

Following hot on the heels of Google's recent announcement that their PREF cookies will now expire after 2 years, Microsoft has announced an enhanced set of privacy principles for Live Search and online advertising data collection, use and protection....

Ask.com, the fourth most popular search engine in the US, is undergoing a major revamp to try and catch Google up.

On a very similar theme to Google's recent announcement about moving towards the "Google Universal Search" where multimedia...

Ask.com, the search engine, has launched a new instant online search and win mechanic, "Challenge Ask".

In what seems like a blatant attempt to encourage people to use the site more, every time logged in members search for something they...

For cricket fans who can't get enough of the sport, Ask.com has launched a dedicated website as part of its official partnership with the England Cricket Team.

The website, www.ask.com/cricket, offers competitions and exclusive content, like...

A recent survey has found that a surprisingly high number of British people are baffled by using a BlackBerry, boggled by blogging and perplexed by podcasting because they may be too afraid to ask for advice.

Although we try our best at Pocket-lint...

Ask having ditched its butler, has announced that it is going after the French, Italian and Dutch search market with the launch of Ask.com France, Ask.com Italia and Ask.com Nederland.

“With the help of Ask.com, internet users in France, Italy...

Ask Jeeves has launched an image search feature to allow it to offer similar services to Google and MSN.

The new technology debuts Ask Jeeves' first internally-created index of Web images, and its Zoom related search specifically for image...

Ask Jeeves has launched a new service for visitors to its site called Web Answers for finding direct answers to search queries from the web.

Building on its range of Smart Answers, Ask Jeeves has developed a Web Answers tool to provide an...

Ask Jeeves UK has introduced a new service for sports fans, giving them access to the latest information on their favourite football or rugby team.

The new sports Smart Search gives users the latest news, fixture lists, and stats for their...