<s>
Teoma	B-Application
(	O
from	O
Scottish	O
Gaelic	O
teòma	O
"	O
expert	O
"	O
)	O
was	O
an	O
Internet	B-Application
search	I-Application
engine	I-Application
founded	O
in	O
April	O
2000	O
by	O
Professor	O
Apostolos	O
Gerasoulis	O
and	O
his	O
colleagues	O
at	O
Rutgers	O
University	O
in	O
New	O
Jersey	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
original	O
research	O
was	O
published	O
in	O
the	O
paper	O
,	O
"	O
DiscoWeb	O
:	O
Applying	O
Link	O
Analysis	O
to	O
Web	B-Application
Search	I-Application
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Teoma	B-Application
search	B-Application
engine	I-Application
was	O
officially	O
launched	O
in	O
April	O
2001	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Ask	B-Application
Jeeves	I-Application
,	I-Application
Inc	I-Application
acquired	O
Teoma	B-Application
on	O
September	O
18	O
,	O
2001	O
for	O
over	O
$1.5	O
million	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
January	O
9	O
,	O
2002	O
,	O
Ask	B-Application
Jeeves	I-Application
announced	O
that	O
it	O
had	O
integrated	O
Teoma	B-Application
's	O
search	O
technology	O
into	O
Ask	B-Application
Jeeves	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Teoma	B-Application
2.0	O
was	O
released	O
on	O
January	O
21	O
,	O
2003	O
,	O
which	O
boasted	O
improvements	O
to	O
search	O
result	O
relevancy	O
,	O
additions	O
to	O
search	O
tools	O
and	O
more	O
advanced	O
search	O
functions	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
February	O
26	O
,	O
2006	O
,	O
the	O
Teoma	B-Application
search	B-Application
engine	I-Application
was	O
rebranded	O
and	O
redirected	O
to	O
search.ask.com	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
mid-April	O
2010	O
,	O
Teoma	B-Application
relaunched	O
with	O
similar	O
search	B-Application
results	I-Application
to	O
Ask	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
of	O
December	O
2010	O
,	O
Ask.com	B-Application
referred	O
to	O
the	O
Teoma	B-Application
algorithm	O
as	O
the	O
ExpertRank	B-Application
algorithm	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2002	O
,	O
Nielsen//NetRatings	O
reported	O
that	O
Teoma	B-Application
had	O
grown	O
by	O
175%	O
,	O
making	O
it	O
the	O
third	O
most	O
popular	O
search	B-Application
engine	I-Application
in	O
the	O
United	O
States	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Teoma	B-Application
's	O
year-over-year	O
growth	O
in	O
terms	O
of	O
number	O
of	O
searches	O
from	O
2002	O
to	O
2003	O
was	O
51%	O
.	O
</s>
