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It's also built a site devoted to helping people find local businesses; improved its general Web search technology Teoma; and set the debut of its branded desktop-search application for late 2004. Finally, Ask Jeeves has taken 20 or so years off the life of its Jeeves' butler--the P.G. Wodehouse character that's been the cornerstone of Ask Jeeves' brand for eight years, but has been absent from the site since last week.

"We thought we'd modernize him, now that the site is," said Jim Lanzone, senior vice president of search products at Ask Jeeves. Despite the modernization, Ask Jeeves is mainly keeping up with the Joneses with most of its new products. Among the top five Web search engines, Ask Jeeves is vying against heavyweights Google and Yahoo to build the most state-of-the-art tools for navigating the Web--and reap the rewards of the multibillion-dollar advertising business tied to it.

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