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Ask Jeeves just shut down after 29 years, and nobody noticed (www.xda-developers.com)
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[โ€“] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 32 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

They had the perfect name and brand for an AI pivot. Ask Jeeves' whole thing was that you could ask in plain language instead of some broken English search terms.

[โ€“] frongt@lemmy.zip 10 points 21 hours ago

We've come full circle. Now Google works better with sentences instead of keywords and modifiers.