The site handled more than 130 million questions in the third quarter. Ask Jeeves also licenses its technology to companies such as Microsoft and Dell. The money-losing online real estate referral service, which is based in Thousand Oaks, Calif., locates apartments and homes for rent and sale. A money-losing company based in Westlake Village, Calif., it provides free Internet service. It had nearly 2 million subscribers as of Sept. 30.
Users get free access in exchange for a small window on their screen that displays ads.
Check out the Internet 100 Index . This subindex performed poorly, despite early evidence of a strong online holiday shopping season. But that hasn't impressed Wall Street. The possibility of companies running low on cash is a concern. Anthony Noto, analyst at Goldman Sachs, says that is especially true for online music seller CDnow, which will run out by the first quarter, and Value America, which will lose more money in the first quarter than it has in the bank.