IAC bought Ask Jeeves Inc for $1.85 billion in stock.

'Membership to Ask Jeeves Concierge is like having your own innovative 'personal butler service' to help organise members' lives and open doors to special services and events like top concerts, premieres and tournaments.'

Ask Jeeves answers about 16 million questions a month, but admits that even its well-informed butler figurehead is occasionally at a loss for some queries.

The Site Submit service allows web site owners to submit their site to Ask Jeeves for inclusion in the Teoma search index within seven days.

Ask Jeeves UK, (Ask.co.uk), the question-answering Internet service, announced this week that it had attracted over 1.7 million new users in the first month since its launch.

According to website Ask Jeeves, Bieber, who was discovered on YouTube, is getting three times as many searches as footballer David Beckham, despite being relatively unheard of in the UK, reports the Telegraph.

Chiles hosts both BBC's The One Show and Match of the Day Two and beat his soccer pal Mark Lawrenson to the title of untidiest presenter in a survey by search engine Ask Jeeves.

Altavista and Ask Jeeves are in sixth and seventh position respectively with 2.5% and 1.5%.

Internet search engine Ask Jeeves UK toured a selection of primary schools to find out what kids wanted for Christmas.

These were among the questions Birmingham people asked in a promotion to launch Just Ask Jeeves UK (Ask.co.uk) - the British version of the popular US question answering Internet site.

The survey, by Ask Jeeves, found viewers were fed up of stars dressing down and wanted them to go back to ties and sharp suits.