Ask Jeeves
Ask Jeeves is a popular search engine known for turning up just the stuff you’re looking for. Ask Jeeves also has a social bookmarking site called “Mystuff.” It allows you to store your saved sites on their server and share links with other users.
With Mystuff, you can keep your stuff organized in different folders and files, like you would on your computer. The search options make it easy and convenient to retrieve the information later. You can upload sites saved to your computer or web browser to Ask Jeeves so they can be accessed by any computer anywhere.
You can tag your saved sites and add notes to them. These are things that help you find them again later. One of the best features of Mystuff is that it’s easy to use. It looks just like the regular Ask Jeeves search page, and the folder options make it easy to organize and find stuff later on.
You can publish your folders, all together or separately. For each folder you decide to publish, you’ll get your own URL address saved on Ask Jeeves server. This way, you can create your own pages catering to whatever different interests you have, and this makes it easy for other users to find your specific bookmarks by looking for tags.
Ask Jeeves also gives you a blog so that you can comment publicly on the sites you choose. You can also select certain sites or folders to email to friends.
One of the special features of Ask Jeeves is the photo album. You can save your own pictures, or pictures from the web, and share them with your friends. Ask Jeeves will give you a URL for each photo album that you save.
For marketing purposes, one cool thing about Ask Jeeves is that it lets you look at what the most popular searches are. It will tell you the top ten searches for the week in different categories. This gives you an idea of what people are looking for.
No specific guidelines are posted on their “about” page specifying what they will or will not accept. It seems to be pretty wide open. Users can select filters to keep out potentially offensive material, and of course blatant spam isn’t welcome.
Most people who use Ask Jeeves like it because it’s a more intelligent search engine. Mystuff is in the same vein, and it’s pages are nice looking and easy for even a total beginner to use.
