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Tuesday, February 28

Ask.com - Goodbye Butler Jeeves, Hello Serious Search

Well, the day has come where the once iconic butler of the Ask Jeeves search engine has finally be laid to rest, or retired at least. The anticipated retrenchment of Jeeves was widely publicized late last year, but in the past week, the site changes have finally been implemented.

In the wake of the butler's departure, Ask.com has taken on a minimalist homepage appearance which is synonymous with the top search engines these days. Front and center is the customary search box, but off to the right is a handy little toolbox with all the advanced search functionality neatly packaged for easy access.

Whilst most of the advanced search features are nothing new, including image search, news, maps and directions, weather, encyclopedia, thesaurus, movie listings, stock market, and currency conversion, it is obvious that Ask.com are readying themselves for the web 2.0 revolution. The first steps include access to the Ask.com mystuff section, easy access to Bloglines, and user defined controls on the toolbox's appearance.

The first release presents very comparably to Ask.com's main adversaries like Yahoo!, MSN and Google, but their spokesman and General Manager, Jim Lanzone, suggests they are planning to build more tools and services through outside developers to ensure "...users are going to experience a search engine that does more for them faster than any other search engine they use."

So as Jeeves takes up his position on the sun lounge at the nearest retirement village, the team at Ask.com are moving full steam ahead to re-establish themselves as a serious search engine..

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15 Comments

At 2:33 AM, Anonymous said...: This post has been removed by a blog administrator.
At 2:34 AM, Anonymous said...: Ask Jeeves should stay!!!
At 9:56 PM, Anonymous said...: you should put jeeves back on the home page! he was totally awesome and you killed his carrer!!!!!!!!
BRING JEEVES BACK,BRING JEEVES BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
At 2:31 PM, Anonymous said...: you murdered Jeeves I know you did bring him back if you are innocent.
At 8:58 PM, Anonymous said...: We NEED Jeeves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
At 4:32 PM, Anonymous said...: we need jeeves back beacuse he helped us anf=d when people was in need of help he was there!!!!!!!BRING HIM BACK!!!!!!!
At 11:39 PM, Anonymous said...: Go Ask Jeeves was a wonderful source full of information. I really miss him. Maybe he could work part-time. :o)
At 2:42 PM, Anonymous said...: You guys really know how to screw up a good thing. I think you call it "technology advancement" when it is actually "thinknology debasement" and you find the way to capitilize on it as well.

What next?
At 7:31 AM, Anonymous said...: It's all about money! It always is!
At 11:36 PM, Anonymous said...: Hey, computer nerds put jeeves back because with out him you guy's web site will be srewed signed the jeeves lovers
At 2:16 AM, Anonymous said...: you really need to put ask jeeves back on here because some people have important questions for jeeves and we need him back so please put him back were he belongs on the computer so some people can ask questions and get answers for asking!!!!!!!!!!!! So please put ask jeeves back on the computer we need him !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
At 3:10 AM, Anonymous said...: I cannot belive you fired Jeeves, IDIOTS!
At 7:36 AM, Anonymous said...: Jeeves was allways there for us and was free If I needed help with school wrk or anything he was the only one who didnt cost I supose that is why he went away . Gosh whats is next?
At 3:07 AM, Anonymous said...: dont leave jeeves i need u
At 2:37 AM, Anonymous said...: jeeves! jeeves! were r u jeeves? i need ur help!!!!!!!!!!!u guys just killed a great man with heartless regard of his great awesome help!!!!!!!all u did was wound a country today i hope ur happy!!!!!!!!!!!