lobotomy Posted November 18, 2006 Share Posted November 18, 2006 I often notice we're being "probed" by google -- gueesing when someone is searching google with a starlet related enquiry... but who these days uses "ask Jeeves"???I just thought it was funny!For those who may be too young to remeber the days of askjeeves.com, lycos.com and the likes... A brief history:"Ask.com was originally known as Ask Jeeves, where "Jeeves" is the name of the "gentleman's gentleman", or valet (illustrated by Marcos Sorenson), fetching answers to any question asked. The character was based on Jeeves, Bertie Wooster's fictional valet from the works of P. G. Wodehouse. The original idea behind Ask Jeeves was to allow users to get answers to questions posed in everyday, natural language. As time wore on and keyword search engines such as Google rose to prominence, indexing more webpages, Ask Jeeves suffered a loss of many of its users. The technology was reworked to allow keyword searches as well, but by this time Ask Jeeves had dropped below Google, MSN, and Yahoo! in the size of their userbase. However, because Ask.com was slow to index some new webpages, Ask.com did not suffer the onslaught of computer-generated linkspam results that initally flooded Google Search, MSN Search, and Yahoo! Search and buried significant webpages that Ask Jeeves (or Ask.com) could still find. "Reference: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia^^^ Jeeves! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Enzo Posted November 18, 2006 Share Posted November 18, 2006 under the influence i am perplexed reading what uve just wrote lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blue Icarian Wings Posted November 18, 2006 Share Posted November 18, 2006 The Wikipedia comment? It makes perfect sense to me Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mart Posted November 18, 2006 Share Posted November 18, 2006 Seen that a few times alright. esp the Google one, Always wondered who they were, now I know... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lobotomy Posted November 18, 2006 Author Share Posted November 18, 2006 Erm... yeah that's what alcy'hol and prescription drugs do to a man with one eye. Sorry I shouldn't have been drinking on medication! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ecksjay Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 um.........beer?? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lobotomy Posted November 19, 2006 Author Share Posted November 19, 2006 Yeah -- I'm on meds for my scratched eyeball, took a layer off near the retina (in another drunken stuper) it's slowly healing but blooy sore! decided to have a few beers though and after sensibly opting for an early night I popped on the net and wrote this... hmmm... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bourkey Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 hi jeeves welcome to the site.anything you want to do with starlets and glanzas is right here!!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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