Ask Jeeves launched in Berkeley, California in late 1995 as a solution to humanize the online search engine experience. Ask Jeeves has more than 16 million unique users per month. The use of a butler as the company branding symbolizes the servitude Ask Jeeves brings to help people quickly find accurate information without exerting effort. User's type questions into the search engine and it retrieves appropriate results.
The search index is compiled by Teoma and their paid for listings are from Overture. Recently Ask Jeeves re-branded and is now just Ask. (Poor old Jeeves!)
Due to the low amount of traffic that Ask Jeeves gets itself the amount of traffic that they send to you is fairly low.