What happend to Jeeves on ask.com?

Question

I miss that little guy...

Answer 1

Back in the days when it was Ask Jeeves he provided a cute icon that went with their incorrect answers. When the site's poor performance became obvious they decided the best way to fix it was to make their image classier and dump the Jeeves guy.

True example from days of ASK Jeeves:

Question "Is there a valet parking fee at the Bal Harbour FL Mall?"  Answer: "The attached radio program schedules for Minneapolis MN stations should provide that info."

Answer 2

he has a better gig now

Answer 3

He was fired sometime last 2006

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Jeeves, the mascot and butler for the Ask Jeeves search engine, has long been heralded as one of the internet’s most popular icons. However, Ask.com has fired its Mascot and re-launched its website with a slim new look.

Ask Jeeves.com started out in 1996, as a site in which users could ask questions of Jeeves, such as “Where can I buy airline tickets online?” and Jeeves would redirect them to specific resources based on the questions asked. Ask Jeeves originally believed that by allowing users to enter their own questions they could simplify the search experience, because users could type in exactly what they wanted to know, without having to guess which key words to enter to get a desired result.

Over time, the questions user began to ask became more complex and users became web savvy enough to know what key words to type in to search engines. Eventually, their original methodology of searches became obsolete and they re-branded them selves as a traditional search engine.

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