AskMeNow

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AskMeNow Inc.
Type Public
Industry Search
FoundedNovember 2005 (2005-11)
Defunct2008 (2008)
FateDissolved
Headquarters Irvine, California
Area served
North America
Key people
Darryl Cohen - CEO
ProductsS3 - Enterprise Semantic Search Solution
Services SMS-based question answering, mobile content distribution, mobile advertising
RevenueIncrease2.svg US$54,536 (FY 2007) [1]
Increase2.svg US$-9.428 million (FY 2007) [1]
Increase2.svg US$-20.435 million (FY 2007) [1]
Total assets Decrease2.svg US$645,110 (FY 2007) [1]
Total equity Decrease2.svg US$-4.894 Million (FY 2007) [1]
Number of employees
32 (Dec 2007) [1]

AskMeNow Inc. was an American public corporation, specializing in mobile search and mobile advertising. The Irvine, California based company officially launched in November 2005 and ceased operations in late 2008. [2] [3] AskMeNow's primary offering was a consumer mobile search product based on proprietary technology that offered a natural language based interaction and dynamic content provision platform.

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AskWiki

AskMeNow signed a partnership agreement with the Wikimedia Foundation to bring natural language processing to English Wikipedia. [4] The beta product, AskWiki, integrated some of the semantic web and natural language features of AskMeNow into English Wikipedia searches. The AskWiki engine was able to parse natural language statements and return specific answers rather than just relevant articles. [5] The contract between AskMeNow and Wikimedia was rescinded after Jimmy Wales announced his own for profit search engine named Wikia.

Partnerships

AskMeNow partnered with a variety of content publishers to offer mobile access to these publishers’ content. These partnerships included National Hockey League, [6] Merriam-Webster, [7] Encyclopædia Britannica, [8] and Guinness World Records. [9]

AskMeNow had established distribution partnerships with Alltel [10] [11] in the US and Rogers Wireless and Bell Mobility in Canada. [12] [13]

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References

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  6. Puck drops on AskMeNow/NHL deal Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
  7. AskMeNow and Merriam-Webster Launch Mobile Dictionary
  8. "Encyclopædia Britannica Selects AskMeNow to Launch Mobile Encyclopedia" (Press release). World's Technology News. February 21, 2007. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
  9. Guinness World Records(TM) Selects AskMeNow to Provide Mobile Access to Its Extensive World Record Database [ dead link ]
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