Parece que Ask quiere apostar por Europa. Tras la apertura de Ask España y Ask Alemania, ahora abre un centro de investigación en Pisa (Italia) dirigida por el profesor Antonio Gulli, creador del primer motor de búsqueda italiano, Arianna.

With broad expertise in machine learning, social networking, data mining, information retrieval and other theories and technologies, the team in Italy will contribute to all aspects of the Ask Jeeves search engine, including its unique ranking methodology, which leverages topic clusters on the Web to determine relevance; vertical search technologies, like image and news; and application-level features, such as Zoom related search.