What Happened to Ask Jeeves? The Butler Search Engine America Used Before Google
14K views · Sep 11, 2026 · People & Blogs
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@BasedPhilosophyMom · 2 weeks ago
I was just talking about Ask Jeeves, and got so sad when I went to the website and it was gone. 😢😢😢😢
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@TRAVJR008 · 10 days ago
The business operations your discussing is extreme embezzlement
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@CapeManCoral · 2 weeks ago
Yep, I used it a couple times. Thank you for this. You explore everything I always wondered about.
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@MiscalculationDocs · 2 weeks ago
Masterclass in tech history! It's wild to think that Ask Jeeves had the exact right intuition about natural language search three decades too early, only to become a cautionary tale of corporate restructuring and toolbar malware. Incredible deep-dive into how the right idea at the wrong time gets crushed by the future.
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@coffeeandrelaxing · 2 weeks ago
They were slowly on their way to creating ChatGPT, but very slowly...
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@zillsburyy1 · 2 weeks ago
I remember that bullshit!
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@BasedPhilosophyMom · 2 weeks ago
Oh man! I didn't realize ASK was the newer Ask Jeeves! Ask sucked. 😭😭😭
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@jamesb8305 · 2 weeks ago
AltaVista was better
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@CatbertDeVil · 2 weeks ago (edited)
I only reconized Ask Jeeves as spam trying to hijack every browser help object bar when I was a kid. Yahoo and Altavista was my staple. I preferred Altavista
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@hanssolos3699 · 10 days ago
Ask Trump is the best search engine in the history of best 😂😂😂
@francisgrizzlysmit4715 · 2 weeks ago (edited)
ask Jeeves never worked for me, it wasn't good at computing programming searches at least not for the programming languages I use
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@thom1218 · 2 weeks ago
That entire company was a virus.
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