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Missed opportunity to name an LLM "Jeeves" and finally live up to the vision.
I actually felt bad for them and wondered if this type of video poking fun at them would become a trend.
I can't help but think this may have influenced them to shutter to avoid more damage to the URL/brand value.
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Alta Vista had more relevant search results than Google has now.
For all practical purposes, internet search is dead or dying. It has been enshittified to perfection by multiple parties. Those who could have been called users in a previous life are the ones getting the least use out of it. For a brief period of time, LLMs can help. Until their inevitable decay into ad-infested hellscapes makes them just as useless. They don't have ad blockers.
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i believe they also bought vimeo and livestream.com, and proceeded to miss the boat where Youtube took off.
Vimeo was bought by Bending Spoons. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45197302
"Additional acquisitions in 2006 included ShoeBuy.com,[46] which the company later sold to Jet,[47] and Connected Ventures including CollegeHumor and Vimeo".
https://ask.com/ is my go-to site that I know will be up, but I know will not be in my DNS or browser cache. I use it as my "wait, is my internet really working" check. I hope the domain lives on, and that I don't want to visit it.
Yahoo.com should be your next one :)
tl;dr ya
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Did you know Chris ("Xris") Martin? I worked with him eons ago and then I think he went to AskJeeves around 2000-ish.
Yes I did/do. He’s a top guy. I think he did some pretty spiffy work on multiprotocol routers in the 90s.
At some point they may have outsource almost everything, but it's hard to imagine that they don't have a few IT on staff. What does these people do? Is it like working at a dying retailer out in the sticks and it's a little confusing when a customer actually works in?
Sad what it had become: https://web.archive.org/web/20260316143530/https://www.ask.c...
Was it ever good?
Missed opportunity to name an LLM "Jeeves" and finally live up to the vision.
One of the best improvements to my life was adding the following to my LLM Prompt: "Please respond as Jeeves from the P.G. Wodehouse stories". Not only are the LLMs quite excellent at emulating the valet, the actual dynamic fits fascinatingly well. Jeeves was always both perspicacious and enthusiastic about whatever task he was given - be it ironing a shirt or seeing to Bertie's continued wellbeing.