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The ask jeeves that recently died is not the ask jeeves that people remember. It was sold to some other company ages ago that turned it into a google search that only returned weird, scammy results.
Ah, thank you. Now I don’t feel bad that it died recently. I still feel bad it died decades ago. Along with Myspace.
RIP Myspace. You were beautiful.
They had the perfect name and brand for an AI pivot. Ask Jeeves’ whole thing was that you could ask in plain language instead of some broken English search terms.
We’ve come full circle. Now Google works better with sentences instead of keywords and modifiers.
No one noticed? It’s been plastered all over the internet for the last week…
Some of these old search engines should go full porn before giving up. There aren’t really a lot of great porn aggregators/search engines out there.
Funnily enough Ask Jeeves tried this in the 2000s. They bought domains like AskSex.com when exploring ways to stay relevant.
When Ask Jeeves became Ask.com, it was the end of everything. The whole innovation was that the engine was made to focus on keywords - which was immediately mimicked by Google the moment they stopped being BackRub.
I assumed they shut down decades ago. 🤷♂️
Surprised they didn’t turn it into yet another AI!
They ran out of money long before LLMs took over the search business.
WAHHHH Ask Jeeves needs your attention
I hate people like this
Ha, I definitely used it ironically a couple of times over the last 25 years. R.i.p buddy, you’ll be missed…
I noticed
I was surprised it was still around. I think it was the first internet search I used. I suppose I read about it in a magazine? Remember magazines?
I remember using keywords on AOL, that worked like a search for AOL, before AOL had an internet browser.
Fuck I’m old.
People mourn in different ways.
Now that, with AI, you could really just ask…
