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It's Goodbye Time for Jeeves and Ask.com - Relics of Yesterday's Internet

It's Goodbye Time for Jeeves and Ask.com - Relics of Yesterday's Internet
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A 1999 press release bragged "Jeeves" answered 92.3 million questions in just three months. "In the digital wilds of Y2K, we came to him with our most probing questions," remembers the New York Times — whether it was Britney Spears or tamagotchis: We asked, and he answered: Jeeves, the digital butler of information, the online valet who led us into the depths of cyberspace. Now, like so many other relics of yesterday's internet, Jeeves — and his home, Ask.com — are no more.

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