Ask Jeeves announced the launch of Ask Jeeves Spanish version.

• Ask Jeeves Spain Beta URL : http://es.ask.com

• Software to check your keyword ranking on Ask Jeeves Espana

• AskJeeves Blog : ¡Jeeves habla español! and Ask Jeeves blog in Spanish

OAKLAND, Calif., April 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Ask Jeeves(R), Inc., a leading provider of information retrieval technologies, brands and Internet advertising services, today announced the launch of a Spanish version of Ask Jeeves. Currently available at http://es.ask.com , the search service is expected to formally launch this summer at http://www.askjeeves.es. Ask Jeeves Espana, which is in beta, is based on the Company's flagship consumer search site Ask Jeeves (http://www.ask.com), and follows Ask Jeeves' expansion into the United Kingdom and Japan. It is the first in a series of international growth initiatives to be announced by the Company this year. "International expansion is an important component to our corporate growth strategy," said Steve Berkowitz, CEO of Ask Jeeves Inc. "We believe the Ask Jeeves brand has a tremendous opportunity to succeed in Europe because it offers the only differentiated world-class search experience to consumers." Ask Jeeves Espana utilizes Ask Jeeves' proprietary Teoma(R) search technology, which determines a website's expertise on a subject, rather than just its link popularity. In addition to Teoma, Ask Jeeves Espana will include industry-leading features such as My Jeeves and the Binoculars site preview tool that make searching faster and easier. Ask Jeeves Espana is the first in a series of European launches Ask Jeeves Inc. expects in 2005. The Company plans to leverage the strength of the Ask Jeeves brand, its differentiated technology that provides users with expert, everyday search functionality, and partnerships with leading consumer media companies to grow users in emerging markets. Ask Jeeves expects to generate revenues from Ask Jeeves Espana through sponsored links. "Spain is still an emerging marketplace and search will be on par with email in terms of popularity," said Miguel Acosta, Vice President of European Development for Ask Jeeves Inc. "So as the Spanish Internet population grows, more and more people will turn to Ask Jeeves to access the best of what the web has to offer: from finding information on news, weather and entertainment to browsing the best shopping and travel sites." Ask Jeeves launches Ask Jeeves Espana

Source: Search engine roundtable: Ask Jeeves Espana

Google is testing a new feature called "Alternate Searches" intended to enhance the user search experience. Other search engines like Yahoo! or AskJeeves have included in their results pages some suggestions of related searches. Google never wanted to add these links but Nate Tyler (from Google) confirmed to Andy Beal that they are running a limited test of this new interface.

This new interface includes a new link at the bottom of a Google results page. The link Try Alternate Searches, when clicked on, takes you to a page that includes other suggest keyword searches, you may want to consider.

Google's option is different from other search engines' because Google's Try Alternate Searches takes the concept one step further by offering a link to a page showing the top-3 searches for common popular variations of the entered search term.

See screenshots from Andy Beal's blog:

Via Andy Beal ()

Other blogs and forums coverage:

• Google Testing New Related Searches & Clustering System?
• "Try Alternate Searches": Google Testing Feature
• Google - Try alternate Searches

Google used to index only the first 101 KB of any web document (that's why you may have often seen 101k as a document's size on Google SERPs). It seems that it's no longer the case: a search for gives as first result the page http://www.gofigger.org/hphist/gutenberg/7ethc10.htm which is 513k.

We reported previously that but at this time we couldn't find any example.

Via WebMasterWorld (Google cache page size limit change) and Google Fan ()