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Published: 2008-01-11 21:53:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 503; Favourites: 2; Downloads: 9
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Ask.com was originally known as Ask Jeeves, where "Jeeves" is the name of the "gentleman's personal gentleman", or valet (illustrated by Marcos Sorenson), fetching answers to any question asked. The character was based on Jeeves, Bertie Wooster's fictional valet from the works of P. G. Wodehouse.As time passed and keyword search engines such as Google rose to prominence by indexing more webpages, Ask Jeeves suffered a loss of many of its users. The technology was reworked to allow keyword searches as well, but by this time Ask Jeeves had dropped below Google, MSN, and Yahoo! in the size of their userbase. However, because Ask.com was slow to index some new webpages, Ask.com did not suffer the onslaught of computer-generated linkspam results that initially flooded Google Search, MSN Search, and Yahoo! Search and buried significant webpages that Ask Jeeves (or Ask.com) could still find.
On September 23, 2005 the company announced plans to phase out Jeeves and on February 27, 2006 the character was disassociated with Ask.com.
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LOL!!!!! Yeah I heard about that....how funny...xD I thought Jeeve's was familiar. owo
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I remember Ask Jeeves.com . 
I never really did get why they got rid of Jeeves. Now its Ask.com... ask who?! How am I supposed to know its not a really person?! They could be out to get me.
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