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Posted by supermdguy 3 hours ago

Ask.com has closed(www.ask.com)
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leke 1 hour ago|
I thought I remembered using this in the 90s when it was Ask Jeeves.
randfur 3 hours ago||
No shoutout to P.G. Wodehouse for the IP?
gyan 3 hours ago|
Yeah, what is the recognition of Jeeves/Wooster among the millennials?
recursivecaveat 32 seconds ago|||
I know what a Jeeves-style character is supposed to be like, but I couldn't tell you the origin, and I'd never heard of Wooster before just now.
jemmyw 2 hours ago||||
As a millennial, the TV show with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry was played when I was a kid, and I've rewatched it several times as an adult and read a few of the books. Our kids have watched the show with us too. I'm currently trying to learn the theme on the piano.

I'm sure it'll continue in some niche, much like Agatha Christie, where I've seen some recent youtube vids by younger people discovering how well they're written. I like it when they say "follows the old trope of ..." and then in the comments you get "doesn't follow it, invented it".

rhdunn 2 hours ago||
There are a few YouTube "can I solve [story] before the reveal?" style videos focusing on Agatha Christie novels ranging from around 4 years old to today.
duped 3 hours ago|||
I was in 4th grade in 2003 when I learned search engines existed (and I have a possibly tainted memory of our Computer Arts teacher in grade school explaining web crawlers and PageRank to us). We had a Gateway PC at home and AOL, but we weren't allowed to use anything networked (I only played Civ III).

But we were essentially taught to use multiple search engines, but that was AskJeeves, Yahoo!, and Google. We liked AskJeeves because of the whimsy. Yahoo! felt too adult and Google felt too much like adults pretending to be kids.

tux033 2 hours ago||
The idea of natural-language search was early, but the brand may have made it feel less technical than it really was. https://tux.re/forum/viewtopic.php?t=212
namegulf 2 hours ago||
You have a great and well known domain name, why not launch a GPT powered LLM on it?

It's a huge opportunity.

Animats 1 hour ago||
Next, Yahoo Search? (It's still live.)
LowLevelKernel 2 hours ago||
Can I buy the domain?
Lorin 3 hours ago||
Would have been a great domain with the rise of AI, shocking they didn't adapt the persona.
treelover 2 hours ago||
"Jeeves’ spirit endures"

It sure does.

EricRiese 3 hours ago||
Pour one out
shevy-java 2 hours ago|
I don't think I have used ask.com in the past (perhaps many years ago though), but now I am becoming increasingly troubled here - does this mean we depend even more on google search? And it constantly gets worse too. That's concerning. We need some real alternatives that don't just suddenly vanish.
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