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Ask.com bumps off the butler
Sad news for fans of Jeeves - the buter who fronted the Ask Jeeves search engine for the past few years.
Renamed Ask.com, the search engine has bumped off Jeeves in favour of a cleaner, more Google-esque version.
Since launching in 1999, visitors to the web site were invited to pose a question to Jeeves - he would then run off and do his best to answer the query. Unfortunately, more often than not he'd come back with a selection of completely irrelevant sites.
Despite providing a more conventional service in recent years, Ask Jeeves still felt it was being seen purely as a question-based search engine.
Along with a redesigned homepage, the new Ask.com includes shortcuts, a desktop search option and fewer adverts.
Thanks to its complete dominance of the search engine market, we doubt Google will be too concerned about the changes at Ask.com, but you can make your own mind up by putting it to the test. Let us know how you get on below.
My favourite question based search engine is answers.com
I tested it with "
who was the tenth president of the united states"
Gave correct answer John Tyler with very nice and organized bio.
Tested Ask.com. Gave correct answer but with much less order, many duplications and require me to keep searching for the whole information.
Answers.com has the upper hand by far.
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