Ask Deutschland ist da!

We are delighted to announce the beta of Ask Deutschland and now offer our unique search features to German Internet users.

The beta site features core Ask search tools: a comprehensive search engine, our unique algorithmic search ranking based on the power of topic communities, the personalized search service MeinAsk, Binoculars for easy site previewing, image search, page translation, Bloglines Notifier, and family-friendly filtering for adult content. Ask Jeeves is planning to release more products from its US version - such as News, Local, Product, and Smart Search - step by step over the next few months as we prepare to bring Ask Deutschland out of beta.

Our brand-spanking new German site is already attracting some great attention. One reason is our partners over at Google have about 85% market share in Germany, and people are excited to have another world-class option. Here's what we are hearing: "The search engine Ask Jeeves provides a niche for the Online Avantgarde", says the Financial Times Deutschland. Frankfurter Allgemeine thinks that "Google has a new competitor in the German market", because "'Ask' works different than other search engines". Even Germany's widely respected newspaper, Die Zeit, paid tribute to Ask Jeeves recently with a very detailed story, calling our search engine "the industry's most innovative technology".

Well, take a look for yourself: www.ask.de.

Andrea Bindereif
German Product Specialist