Piggynap's Blog | Zoe Piper » Ask.com http://www.piggynap.com Zoe Piper, The Internet And Everything Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:00:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Ask Jeeves Is Back! http://www.piggynap.com/askcom/ask-jeeves-is-back/ http://www.piggynap.com/askcom/ask-jeeves-is-back/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:16:54 +0000 admin http://www.piggynap.com/?p=641 ask me baby If you’re over a certain age you probably remember the lovable Jeeves, Ask.com’s search engine butler. The premise was that you could type in a question and he’d find you the answer. As a youngster I thought this was absolutely fantastic and happily spent many months using search in this way – long before I’d even heard of Google. I thought it was a shame when Ask.com got rid of him because let’s face it, the most intuitive way to find information is to ask!

According to itpro, Ask.com are bringing Jeeves back to the UK. He’ll be ‘three-dimensional’ with an account on Facebook and Twitter – sort of like a Robot Overlord. I can’t wait to ask Jeeves stuff again – it’ll be interesting to see if he can parse questions better than he used to; his command of the English language – unusually for a butler – was never that great!

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