I’m surprised the Ask Jeeves brand never became an AI chatbot.
Jeeves apparently was classier than that all the way until the end.
Its corpse undoubtedly will be.
I was thinking this as well. You would have thought they took the “Jeeves” as an agent name.
It’s a more meaningful assistant name than Siri or Alexa.
There was a time you asked Jeeves a question for the last time and never knew it 😔
It’s good to see they never sold out to some AI chatbot nonsense. Shame to see it go.
It was a garbage search engine, but a memorable one from the early web nonetheless.
Yeah, I remember disliking it back in the day (Alta Vista gang!!!🅰️♈), but I wish they evolved and got better rather than shutting down and I am still sad to see it go.
Another relic from '95 is still managing to keep a web presence.
That used to be my search page of choice.
Owned by these folks; https://system1.com/what-we-do
I expect the trademark will be for sale soon.
PG Wodehouse would die again if he saw Jeeves become a digital effigy
You’d think someone wasting money on AI would have snapped up this property. The brand is still a good fit for a chatbot.
I didn’t even realise Jeeves was still around! I remember using it in school before google existed.
Honestly, I forgot this site existed.
I remember it being my first search engine after seeing a tv ad for it in the 90s.
Never thought about it for about 20 years but a little sad nonetheless.
As an Android user, I’ve been disappointed that they’ve never had a British male accent, at least in the US. I would be rather entertained to have my voice assistant respond like a polite but mildly annoyed butler.
How are we now going to find things on the internet?
I remember when everybody was using Ask. That was a long, long time ago.
Fuck how else am I supposed to play pong now
Haven’t used it in years but this legitimately makes me sad for some reason.
More mourning than I would have thought - those browser extensions tho
