AskJeeves gained notoriety back in the early 1990's with their so called Natural Language search engine that magically knew all the right answers to the questions that were asked of it. Natural language processing has been the holy grail of search engines and computer users for decades. Askjeeves did a clever forgery. AskJeeves cleverly had dozens of content editors who monitored search engine logs looking for the most popular requests and crafting the responses so the next time a user asked the same question that Askjeeves.com would know the answer.

Times have changed at askjeeves.com now. After some rocky financial years and evolution of hundreds of other search engines into the search engine marketplace, askjeeves.com quickly lost market share. Today www.askjeeves.com is indexed using crawler based technology that is so popular on many of the other top search engines such as google, yahoo, lycos, and others.

AskJeeves top 10 Searches for 2004

    2004 Top News searches                        
    1.       Iraq
    2.       Election 2004
    3.       Janet Jackson
    4.       Scott Peterson Trial
    5.       Kobe Bryant
    6.       Mars Rover
    7.       Martha Stewart
    8.       Same Sex Marriage
    9.       Michael Jackson
    10.      Ronald Reagan

    2004 Top Celebrity searches
    1.       Usher
    2.       Britney Spears
    3.       Paris Hilton
    4.       Janet Jackson
    5.       Hilary Duff
    6.       Orlando Bloom
    7.       Christina Aguilera
    8.       Pamela Anderson
    9.       Michael Jackson
    10.      Eminem

    2004 Top Movie searches
    1.       Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
    2.       Spider Man 2
    3.       The Passion of the Christ
    4.       Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    5.       Kill Bill Vol. 2
    6.       Shrek 2
    7.       Troy
    8.       Fahrenheit 9/11
    9.       Shark Tale
    10.      The Incredibles

    2004 Top Picture searches
    1.       Britney Spears
    2.       Christina Aguilera
    3.       Orlando Bloom
    4.       Paris Hilton
    5.       Usher
    6.       Johnny Depp
    7.       Eminem
    8.       Pamela Anderson
    9.       Hilary Duff
    10.      Jessica Simpson

    2004 Top Destination searches
    1.       Hawaii
    2.       Las Vegas
    3.       Florida
    4.       Disneyland
    5.       Mexico
    6.       Greece
    7.       Japan
    8.       Italy
    9.       France
    10.      Spain

    2004 Most Popular things to do on the Internet
    1.       Look up Music Lyrics
    2.       Find Maps/Get driving directions
    3.       Play Games
    4.       Learn Jokes
    5.       Get a Weather Forecast
    6.       Research Baby Names
    7.       Read your Horoscope
    8.       Find a Job
    9.       Download Ringtones
    10.      Download Music