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The world might be a different place if Ask Jeeves won the search engine wars.

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The world might be a different place if Ask Jeeves won the search engine wars.

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  • @[email protected]
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    7•4 months ago

    Indubitably!

  • VodkaSolution
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    4•4 months ago

    My heart will always host Altavista but… we’d have JVS.IT url shortner for sure

  • Crash
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    40•4 months ago

    I don’t know your reasoning for this but I agree regardless

    • @[email protected]OP
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      4 months ago

      Some one has to speak up for Jeeves. After all, he served me some of the first boobs I’ve ever saw.

      • @[email protected]
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        13•4 months ago

        So how were Jeeves boobs? Nice?

        • @[email protected]OP
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          13•4 months ago

          I lady never tells.

          • @[email protected]
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            5•4 months ago

            Okay, but what about you?

            /s

  • @[email protected]
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    1•4 months ago

    might?

  • @[email protected]
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    3•4 months ago

    “I prefer jovial” would’ve become the goto rainbow capitalist phrase

  • @[email protected]
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    11•4 months ago

    Jeeves, why would the world be a different place if Ask Jeeves won the search engine wars?

    • @[email protected]
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      12•4 months ago

      “Just Jeeves it” doesn’t quite roll off the tongue…

      • @[email protected]
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        14•4 months ago

        Well no…it would have been “Just Ask Jeeves”.

  • bizarroland
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    4•4 months ago

    The first company to sell their soul to mammon was going to win the search engine wars.

    If it hadn’t been googie it would have been whoever inked the first contract.

  • @[email protected]
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    17•4 months ago

    Meh, power corrupts.

    It would just be a different color scheme.

    • @[email protected]
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      2•4 months ago

      You might say capitalism necessitates corruption

      • @[email protected]
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        2•4 months ago

        Capitalism is a deeply flawed system. But it was our flaws that infected it.

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    4 months ago

    I was working tech support at my university when all these search engines first started appearing. It was also the era of aggressive typo squatting domains.

    AskJeebes dot com was a hardcore porn site.

  • @[email protected]
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    2•4 months ago

    Does ai have a place in the ask Jeeves search engine?

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