Ask Jeeves Opens New Office in Campbell and Expands Corporate Headquarters in Oakland
November 10 2005 - 7:01AM
PR Newswire (US)
Company Readies for Aggressive Hiring as It Continues to Grow
Market Share OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Ask Jeeves,
Inc., a leading provider of information retrieval technologies,
brands and Internet advertising services, today announced that the
company has relocated its South Bay operations into a new, larger
space in Campbell, California. The new office will accommodate Ask
Jeeves employees from numerous departments, with a focus on product
development and engineering. In addition to the new office in
Campbell, Ask Jeeves has also expanded its corporate headquarters
in Oakland, California. The office expansions come on the heels of
recent news that Ask Jeeves grew market share faster than Yahoo,
MSN and AOL in September 2005, according to comScore Media Metrix
(September, 2005). "As a growing company in one of the hottest
high-tech sectors, we needed to increase our workspace across our
Bay Area locations to meet our aggressive hiring efforts," said
Glen Sunnergren, senior vice president of human resources at Ask
Jeeves. "Our growth plans will allow us to accelerate development
of the world-class search and information-retrieval that we have
been creating in our Oakland and Silicon Valley offices for years."
The new 16,000 square foot Campbell office space will accommodate
new hires to the Ask Jeeves corporation, as well as current
employees being relocated from the former offices in Los Gatos. The
modern warehouse space is over one hundred percent larger than the
previous Silicon Valley offices, and features high ceilings, lots
of light and an environment that fosters open collaboration between
developers. The Ask Jeeves Campbell office will be located at 655
Technology Parkway, with a central location that offers quick
access to major highways and mass transit, as well as parks,
basketball courts and a nearby golf course. "With offices in both
the East Bay and Silicon Valley, we are able to access the broadest
pool of talented professionals across much of the Bay Area,"
continued Sunnergren. "We find that Ask Jeeves' success, along with
an environment that enables every individual to have a direct
impact on both the business and the millions of users we reach, is
appealing to the driven, entrepreneurial-spirit of Bay Area job
seekers." As one of the top growing technology organizations in the
Bay Area and the 7th largest US Web property, according to comScore
Media Metrix (September, 2005), Ask Jeeves offers a workplace
environment that fosters employee innovation and teamwork. Ask
Jeeves employees also have the opportunity to be directly involved
in the creation and development of technologies to help make
finding and using information on the Web easier. In addition to the
new office in Campbell, Ask Jeeves has also expanded their
corporate headquarters within the Class A office building at 555
12th Street in Oakland, which the company moved into in 2004. Since
this move, the Ask Jeeves organization has increased rapidly,
warranting the acquisition of additional space within the building.
About Ask Jeeves, Inc. As the 7th largest global web property
(comScore Media Metrix, September, 2005), Ask Jeeves Inc. delivers
world-class information retrieval products through a diverse
portfolio of Web sites, portals and downloadable applications. Ask
Jeeves' search and search-based portal brands include: Ask Jeeves
(Ask.com, Ask.co.uk and es.Ask.com), the Ask Jeeves Japan joint
venture (Ask.jp), Ask Jeeves for Kids (AJKids.com), Bloglines
(bloglines.com), Excite (excite.com), iWon (iwon.com), My Way
(myway.com) and Fun Web Products (funwebproducts.com).
Additionally, Ask Jeeves owns proprietary search technology Teoma,
as well as natural language processing, portal and ad-serving
technologies. Ask Jeeves generates revenue from advertisers seeking
to reach the company's broad-based online audience. Founded in
1996, Ask Jeeves became a wholly-owned business of
IAC/InterActiveCorp in July, 2005. Its headquarters are located in
Oakland, California, with offices throughout the United States, as
well as in Europe and Asia. For more information, visit
http://www.ask.com/ or call 510-985-7400. DATASOURCE: Ask Jeeves,
Inc. CONTACT: Heather Staples of Ask Jeeves Public Relations,
+1-510-985-7610, or ; or Darcy Cobb of Dotted Line Communications,
+1-310-472-8600, or , for Ask Jeeves, Inc. Web site:
http://www.ask.com/
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