Ask Jeeves joins forces with Tickle
23 April 2004
Search engine Ask Jeeves Inc has signed up with online dating site Tickle Inc to combine web search results from Ask Jeeves with search results from Tickle's own social networking service.
Tickle estimates that there are more than two million profiles in its social network, one of the web's largest.
Its People Search service, which aims to deliver personalised search results, will now include Ask Jeeves' Teoma search results as well as carrying keyword search ads from Ask Jeeves partner Google Inc.
Social networking sites have struggled to cash in on their user bases and are now looking for ways to generate extra revenue.
Tickle CEO James Currier, commented: "The advent of Web search in the 1990's taught us to query text data pages instead of talking with each other. Tickle people search brings online search full circle, back to letting us find the right people to talk to."
When searching on a keyword or phrase, Tickle users can choose whether to see people results, broad web results, or both together.
Google had has distributed its paid listings to Ask Jeeves for almost on two years and Ask Jeeves, through its pending acquisition of Interactive Search Holdings, has plans to expand its distribution of Google listings through its own network.
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