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    Ask.com wird nach fast 30 Jahren geschlossen und markiert damit das Ende von Ask Jeeves

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    1. trentluv on

      I wonder how many tens of thousands of times this website was crawled by AI in order to extrapolate its information to inform LLMs

    5. Fourwindsgone on

      I remember having my brother ask Jeeves how to treat road rash when I fell out of the back of my buddy’s truck. Incredibly helpful.

    9. YTLupo on

      I remember when Google first launched my mom would always debate between using Ask Jeeves or the new Google.

      The internet was so much more innocent back then filled by information and curiosity

    10. LowConstant3938 on

      In 2005 I was 8 years old waiting for a computer game to arrive in the mail, and I typed “Where is my package?” into Ask Jeeves. I got an unsolicited but very important lesson in male anatomy that day.

    11. compuwiza1 on

      I remember using that ages ago. Once it became ask.com with no Jeeves, it’s results seemed to be only paid advertisers. I wasn’t aware it was still around until yesterday.

    16. Kenju4u on

      I use to work for its parent company at one point. Ask Jeeves died a long time ago. What remained was a version of the original from the Netscape days.

    17. AndrewH73333 on

      It’s kind of funny that the instant we actually have the technology for an AI butler that answers all your questions we get rid of Jeeves.

    18. UnexpectedAnanas on

      It’s actually quite amazing the staying power some of these early internet giants despite having fallen out of relevance decades ago.

      RIP, Jeeves.

    23. mikefizzled on

      I wouldn’t be surprised if enough time has passed that someone buys the domain and ip off of them for yet another AI chatbot. Can’t think anyone younger than a millennial would have even heard of Ask or Ask Jeeves.

    25. cttouch on

      Damn. I didn’t realize it was still kicking around.

      I wonder what the infrastructure looked like over the last 10 years.

    28. SteakEconomy2024 on

      I was just surprised a week ago to find out they fired Jeeves and were still in existence.

    29. timeandmemory on

      There’s a universe where Jeeves beat google in the 90s and we achieve world peace.

    31. supremedalek925 on

      Damn, I didn’t know they were still around. I don’t think I’ve been on Ask Jeeves in around 25 years.

    32. heimdal77 on

      Didn’t even know it was still around. Let alone think about it in decades.

    34. RealNotFake on

      It was fun and quirky to have your search results feel *maybe 5%* more conversational back in the day. But let’s be real, there was never a time when it was good. We just mourn it because it reminds us of a time before the internet was 99% hot garbage.

    37. CaptainC0medy on

      Jeeves would have been the perfect ai name.

      „Jeeves, weather“

      And old english butler accent responds.

      Classy.

    39. BobBelcher2021 on

      I will always remember May 1/2 as the day both Spirit Airlines and Ask Jeeves died.

    40. ab00 on

      First Altavista, now Jeeves?

      At least we have Hotbot, Lycos, Yahoo, Webcrawler…………..

    42. Yyc2yfc on

      Somewhere in rural America there’s a grandmother confused as to how she will answer questions now that Jeeves has retired

    45. lizndale on

      Holy cow I had no clue that ask Jeeves was still out there. Once Google came out, I never went back.

    46. drkpie on

      I remember cleaning up computers for people and one of the signs of spy/adware was the redirects to Ask lol.

    47. wytewydow on

      buttfuck, I just mentioned that site 2 days ago, for the first time in half a decade.

    49. RedbloodJarvey on

      This seems like a missed opportunely to partner with one of the big LLMs.

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