Ask (AI) Jeeves
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Search Engine Graveyard
So… Who Was Jeeves, Anyway?
Jeeves wasn’t just a search engine — he was your tuxedoed search butler before AI assistants were cool. Back when Yahoo, AltaVista, and Lycos ruled the web, Jeeves let you ask full questions like “Why do Furbies blink at night?” instead of typing “furby blinking curse.”
He answered politely and probably didn’t sell your data. Then Google showed up, ‘Googling’ became a verb, and Jeeves wondered whether his ringtone was still the coolest on the block.
In 2006, Jeeves got unplugged with the last tortured scream of a dial-up modem and banished to the digital wasteland of forgotten MySpace profiles—awkwardly waving at Tom, his only friend. Meanwhile, Pluto lost its planet status, AIM perfected the art of ghosting, and LimeWire was the wild west where downloading your favorite song came with a side of malware roulette.
The internet was in full-on evolution mode. YouTube was barely a year old — still packed with early viral hits like Charlie the Unicorn and Badger Badger Badger — Google Maps had just launched, changing the game so we no longer had to ask strangers for directions or get hopelessly lost. Jeeves tweaked his MySpace mood song one last time, then gracefully logged off forever.
Still, for a moment in time, Jeeves made the internet feel a little more polite — and a lot weirder.
Ask Jeeves Nostalgia Bot
Sample Queries You Can Try
Jeeves: “Probably trapped in an eternal loop of updating his mood song and reconsidering those Top 8 choices.”
Jeeves: “Basically. Alexa, but furrier, blinking weirdly and shouting—‘Hootie-hoo! Me hungry! Yum!’—randomly at 3 AM. The stuff of nightmares.”
Jeeves: “Duolingo guilt is a passive-aggressive reminder; Tamagotchi guilt is a digital funeral you’ll never forget.”
Jeeves: “Valuable until you traded it for some questionable cafeteria snacks and lifelong regret.”