Teoma Relaunch
Ask Jeeves’ has launched Teoma out of beta today with a redesigned site. The folders are now called “Refine.” The metasites formerly called Expert’s Links are now called Resources. And at the very top...
View ArticleAdvanced Features at Teoma
Teoma has updated their database, expanded it by 60% (to about 350 million records after crawling 750 million), and added several new search features. Eventually there should also be an advanced search...
View ArticleTeoma OR and Phrases
Teoma now can use an OR and is supposed to do phrase searching correctly. Previously the phrase searching was only approximate. The OR must be in all upper case letters, but without nesting the...
View ArticleHotBot Searches Four
HotBot has relaunched and now can search Inktomi, Google, FAST, and Teoma. Terra-Lycos, the owner of HotBot, says that with the new HotBot, they want to give the users control. It certainly makes it...
View ArticleTeoma Adds Advanced Search & Preferences
A full announcement is supposed to be coming out on Jan. 21, but already the Teoma site is now offering an advanced search page and a customization page. The advanced search makes using the new...
View ArticleTeoma 2.0 Press Release
Today Teoma officially announced the changes they implemented last week. The press release highlights their new advanced search features, KWIC display, improved relevance, better communities, and a...
View ArticleHotBot’s Teoma Adds Advanced Search
HotBot’s version of Teoma has finally added some of the advanced search features that have been available on Teoma’s site for the past few months. It does not include all of the advanced search...
View ArticleAdvanced Search Page at Ask
Further integrating Teoma search features, Ask Jeeves now has an advanced search page. It has all the same features as the Teoma advanced search page except for the ability to get more than 10 results...
View ArticleTeoma and Ask Jeeves Add PDFs
Teoma (and thus Ask Jeeves as well) has added indexed PDF files to their database. Unfortunately, they do not yet have any limit syntax, although adding a inurl:pdf to a query term comes close. On Ask...
View ArticleTeoma 3.0
Ask Jeeves announced the official launch of Teoma 3.0 search technology at both the Ask Jeeves and Teoma sites. The upgrade includes “Increased Relevance by enhancing its “ability to classify content...
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