Teoma 3.0

Ask Jeeves announced the official launch of Teoma 3.0 search technology at both the Ask Jeeves and Teoma sites. The upgrade includes

• "Increased Relevance by enhancing its "ability to classify content in order to better assess authority."
• Improved Freshness "including daily crawls of popular, news, and other important sites.
• An expanded database with over "2 billion English-only Web documents" and a plan to get over 2.5 billion by the end of the year.
• Support for double-byte Asian languages, "enabling the recent beta launch of Ask Jeeves Japan (Ask.jp), the first non-English based Teoma index."
• New search features announced but not yet available includecached pages, related searches on Ask Jeeves, the ability to restrict by file types (PDF and Flash).