Ask.com to phase out its Teoma brand, merge Teoma Search into Ask web site

[mandy]

With all of the focus on our flagship brand changing, we wanted to point out another brand shift we'll be making soon: we are rolling the Teoma brand in to Ask, pointing the Teoma.com domain to http://search.ask.com.

As we've detailed before, when Teoma was acquired back in late 2001, it was a pioneering, 7-person shop that had developed some next-generation algorithms and a promising search engine. Since then, it has served as the heart of the technology underlying Ask Jeeves, and has been the foundation of our resurgence in search. The algorithm, one way we uniquely determine relevance, will be known as ExpertRank going forward...

At this point, the only feature on Teoma.com that is not on Ask.com is the "Resources", or hubs, pages. But given that this receives less than a 1% click-rate, we don't think many people will miss it,...

full article: http://blog.ask.com/2006/02/another_brand_r.html