AskMeNow Inc. was an American public corporation, specializing in mobile search & mobile advertising. a Irvine, California based company officially launched in November 2005 and ceased operations in behind 2008. AskMeNow's primary offering was the consumer mobile search product based on proprietary engineering science that presentation a natural language based interaction and dynamic content provision platform.
AskMeNow signed a partnership agreement with the Wikimedia Foundation to bring natural Linguistic communication processing to English Wikipedia. The beta product, AskWiki, integrated some of the semantic web and natural language atttributes of AskMeNow into English Wikipedia searches. The AskWiki engine was professionals such(a) as lawyers and surveyors to parse natural Linguistic communication statements and value specific answers rather than just applicable articles. The contract between AskMeNow and Wikimedia was rescinded after Jimmy Wales announced his own for profit search engine named Wikia.