Ask, originally "Ask Jeeves" acquired the technology from Teoma Technologies. Teoma's technology uses compact mathematical modeling of the Web's structure to generate dynamic queries.

Like Google, Teoma makes heavy use of link analysis to produce its results. However, Teoma's system measures links only within collections of documents deemed relevant to a particular search, rather than those on pages from across the entire web, as Google does.

Ask currently has about a 3% market share in the search industry.