Ask Jeeves Axes Jeeves

[Charlie]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4275988.stm

"Search site Ask Jeeves is getting rid of the iconic valet that has been its companion since its earliest days.

Citing "user confusion" over what the butler character represents the search site has said that Jeeves will soon be phased out."

Ask Jeeves sucks anyway, maybe they'll change their name?

[GoonFace]

What's the point of slowly phasing him out, not many people go on there so no one will really notice. Except my old graphics teacher, who actually asked him questions. Instead of typing "lithography" into the search engine, he typed "what is lithography?" :lmao:

[Dieter]

What's the point of slowly phasing him out, not many people go on there so no one will really notice. Except my old graphics teacher, who actually asked him questions. Instead of typing "lithography" into the search engine, he typed "what is lithography?" :lmao:

Hey!

I did that too a couple of years ago :aww:

[Ramar]

I sometimes type in "what is <Enter what I'm searching for here>" into google, especially when I want to know what something is. But I never put a question mark.

[Offerman]

I think thats where the confusion lay. I mean you could ask Google if you wanted to, but it would be a waste of time because the same result would come out, but then again - Google is far more powerful.

[Charlie]

I'm sure you'd get the exact same result on Ask Jeeves if you put in the "what is" or just left it out too.