Recently commercial search engines like Ask Jeeves, MSN and Yahoo are able to use an extra " Crawl-delay :" parameter in the robots. txt file to indicate the number of seconds to delay between requests.

* Ask. com, a web search engine, formerly Ask Jeeves

He also founded Ask Jeeves, now Ask. Com, an Internet search engine which is now part of IAC.

* Ask Jeeves Background

Teoma was acquired by Ask Jeeves on September 11, 2001, and has powered ask. com and other international Ask Jeeves sites ( such as ask. co. uk, ask. jp ) and Ask Jeeves Spain since then.

* Jeeves, created in 1915 by P. G. Wodehouse, starred in a series of stories until Wodehouse's death in 1975 ; Reginald Jeeves is considered the " personification of the perfect valet " since 1930, inspired the name of Internet search engine Ask Jeeves, and is now a generic term in dictionaries such as the Oxford English Dictionary.

Excite continued to operate until the Excite Network was acquired by Ask Jeeves ( now Ask. com ) in March 2004.

Ask Jeeves promised to rejuvenate iWon and Excite, but did not.

" Hopefully, as we start to invest more and get the staff in place and some of the changes to the portal properties that we want, we hope to see ( revenue ) grow back in the latter half of the year ," said Ask Jeeves CEO Steve Berkowitz during a conference call with analysts on April 27, 2005.

On May 20, 2005, Ask Jeeves made two announcements regarding the rejuvenation of the Excite brand.

It first announced that it had acquired Excite Italia B. V. ( the operator of Excite Europe ), from Tiscali, S. p. A .; and, secondly, the company reported that it had reached a comprehensive settlement with InfoSpace regarding Excite in the United States, whereby Ask Jeeves and InfoSpace would share marketing costs and revenue from the Excite web search function.

It was 15 years before the personal computer became familiar to the general public, and three decades before most people encountered attempts at natural language processing in Internet services like Ask. com or PC help systems such as Microsoft Office Clippy.

These " enthusiastic amateurs " became GoFasterStripe and, having set themselves up in order to film the show, have gone on to film the works of many other " non-mainstream " comedians, including sets from Tony Law ( Lee's support act on the 2009 If You Prefer A Milder Comedian, Please Ask For One tour ), Simon Munnery ( whose BBC television comedy series-Attention Scum-was directed by Lee ) and several by Lee's former partner Richard Herring.

He became an LGBT rights activist following his coming out on The Rachel Maddow Show in March 2009 and has been publicly challenging America's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, which previously prevented lesbian, bisexual and gay ( LBG ) service members from serving openly.

In 2005, Yorke became a spokesman for Friends of the Earth and their campaign to reduce carbon emissions, The Big Ask.

Ask. com became subject to heavy criticism by industry experts after its exit from the highly competitive search industry.

During the 1960s and 1970s, he presented the series Open House, Picture Parade, Points of View, the leading literary quiz Take it or Leave it, Ask the Family, BBC3 – including the discussion during which Kenneth Tynan became the first person to say " fuck " on British television ( Robinson told Tynan that this was " an easy way to make history ") – and Call My Bluff.

Stoppard became well known during the 1970s and 1980s as a television presenter on scientific and medical programmes such as Don't Ask Me and Where There's Life.

The company's slogan, " Lose Weight Now, Ask Me How ", became a marketing theme for distributors, featuring heavily on badges, flyers and posters.

In Chicago, Oberweis became a regular guest on the Ask an Expert show.

Ned's had one last UK top 40 single with All I Ask of Myself Is That I Hold Together in 1995, following a final barnstorming appearance on The Word, while the uncharacteristically slow number Stuck became the band's final single, making the BBC Radio One B-list ( though allegedly only after the band's radio plugger refused to tell the station's taste-makers who the song was by before they heard it ).

In 2002, the " Ask the Fruitcake Lady " segments became a regular part of The Tonight Show.

Known for his memory for quotations and trivia, " Ask John Bartlett " became a byword in the community when someone was stumped.

He also became presenter of the Ask DIY, HGTV and the Travel Channel.

The song " Be Mig " ( Ask Me ) became a hit on the radio.

Ask them to tell you the facts, not just what they think will please you .... You have the whole of the East against you, as well as Egypt.

Mueller wrote the health column " Ask Dr. Mueller " for the East Village Eye and later served as art critic for Details.

McIntyre Suite, Symphonic Variations on an American Theme and Anthem, the symphonic poem Jervis Bay, and Ask Not, which incorporates quotations from John F. Kennedy's inaugural address.

Later in his career, Lewis acted in a few movies, notably An Affair to Remember ( 1957 ), Good Neighbor Sam ( 1964 ), Ski Party ( 1965 ), Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex ( But Were Afraid to Ask ) ( 1972 ), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying ( 1967 ) and the TV movie The Law ( 1974 ), in which he played a dinner speaker at a lawyers ' convention.

About. com was acquired by The New York Times Company in February 2005, who later announced plans to sell the site to IAC, owners of Ask. com and the Reference. com network, for $ 300 million.

Author, activist, and grower " Ask Ed " Rosenthal ( of High Times fame ) was raided and charged by federal agents the same day DEA Administrator Asa Hutchinson made a speech to the Commonwealth Club.

* Ask the Expert article on lithium orotate by Ron Pies, M. D., clinical professor of psychiatry at Tufts University and popular Psychiatric Times columnist.

The Metro Times also prints Dan Savage's Savage Love sex advice column ( which replaced Isadora Duncan's Ask Isadora sex advice column ) and Rob Brezsny's Free Will Astrology.

Ask what the boys in the Sandbox Will Have, Times Higher Education Supplement ( London ), reprinted in the introduction to The Vices of Economists-The Virtues of the Bourgeoisie

*" Four Judicial Nominees Ask to Withdraw ", New York Times, Jan. 9, 2007

He currently co-writes the ' Ask Dr Ozzy ' column with Ozzy Osbourne for The Sunday Times Magazine ( London ) and Rolling Stone, and is a regular contributor to British GQ and The Times ( London ).

During a complex creation myth in which the cosmic cow licked Buri free from the ice, the sons of Buri's son, Bor, who were Odin, Vili and Vé, constructed the universe and put Midgard in it as a residence for the first human couple, Ask and Embla, whom they created from driftwood trees in Section 9.

In Norse mythology, Ask and Embla ( from Old Norse Askr ok Embla )— male and female respectively — were the first two humans, created by the gods.

* 2011 – The United States ends its " Don't Ask, Don't Tell " policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.

According to Norse mythology, the first humans, Ask and Embla, were formed out of two pieces of driftwood, an ash and an elm, by the god Odin and his brothers, Vili and Vé.

Some scholars have proposed that the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá may contain an account of the first human beings, Ask and Embla, as having been created by dwarfs.

In Norse mythology, the World Tree Yggdrasil is commonly held to be an ash tree, and the first man, Ask, was formed from an ash tree.

* Ask and Embla, in Norse mythology, the first humans

In Völuspá, at the creation of the first human beings, Ask and Embla, Hœnir and Lóðurr help Odin.

That same year saw the release of PiL's first compilation album The Greatest Hits, So Far, which featured one new song, the environmentally themed single " Don't Ask Me ".

Toward the end of the tour to promote Live Through This, the band released their first EP, titled Ask for It, in September 1995 ; it featured 1991 Peel session recordings of " Doll Parts " and " Violet ", as well as covers of The Wipers ' " Over the Edge " and " Pale Blue Eyes " by The Velvet Underground.

ørlǫglausa " ørlǫg-less " occurs in Voluspa 17 in reference to driftwood, that is given breath, warmth and spirit by three gods, to create the first humans, Ask (" Ash ") and Embla ( possibly " Elm ").

" Don't Ask, Don't Tell " ( 2000 ): Miranda, the lawyer, pretends to be a stewardess at the event after telling her first few " dates " that she is a successful lawyer scares them off

The first element is the name Askøy came from the farm Ask ( Old Norse: Askr ) and the last element is øy, meaning " island ".

David Reuben, M. D .' s book Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex ( But Were Afraid to Ask ), published in 1969, was one of the first sex manuals that entered mainstream culture in the 1960s.

Ask. com sponsored the car for most races in 2009, In the 2009 Spring Las Vegas race, the Shelby 427, Labonte recorded his first top 5 with Hall of Fame racing, and his best finish since he finished third in the Fall Martinsville race in 2006.

The album was their first to be fully co-produced by Mario Caldato Jr. Caldato was an engineer on Paul's Boutique and was credited as producer on that album's track " Ask for Janice ".

Ask. com's foray into NASCAR is the first instance of its venture into what it calls Super Verticals.

* Ask, the first male human in Norse mythology.

When in Hollywood ... is showing at the end of the credits, and it consists of three blue cards, the first saying " Universal Studios — the Entertainment Center of the World ," the second saying " When in Hollywood Visit Universal Studios ," and the last adding " Ask for Babs ".

* Ask and Embla, the first humans in Norse Mythology

Their first regular TV series, Ask the Leyland Brothers, ran on Australian television from 1976 to 1980, and again from 1983 to 1984.

Another change in tradition came during the 1941-42 academic year, when Triangle produced Ask Me Another, its first show in revue format.