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Ask Jeeves should would have been the perfect place to implement AI search results. And it should have been the ONLY place to implement AI search results.

To be fair, they've been dead since they got rid of the "Jeeves" part. I remember occasionally using or hearing about Ask Jeeves, but I remember nothing about "Ask" except when they dropped Jeeves I was like "Oh, that's lame".

I just ask Ivan @ivanthek.bsky.social

you will always be remembered, jeeves

Seems like an odd time to choose to shut down a "natural language search engine" when we finally have machines you can talk to in natural language.

Fuuuck, that sucks. My favorite thing was “ask evil Jeeves” which you got to by asking Jeeves if he had an evil brother.