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@Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world •
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The world might be a different place if Ask Jeeves won the search engine wars.

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The world might be a different place if Ask Jeeves won the search engine wars.

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  • Crash
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    I don’t know your reasoning for this but I agree regardless

    • @Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.worldOP
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      Some one has to speak up for Jeeves. After all, he served me some of the first boobs I’ve ever saw.

      • @Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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        So how were Jeeves boobs? Nice?

        • @Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.worldOP
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          A lady never tells.

          • @PlasticExistence@lemmy.world
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            Okay, but what about you?

            /s

  • @Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world
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    Meh, power corrupts.

    It would just be a different color scheme.

    • @Draces@lemmy.world
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      You might say capitalism necessitates corruption

      • @Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world
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        Capitalism is a deeply flawed system. But it was our flaws that infected it.

  • @radix@lemmy.world
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    I was working tech support at my university when all these search engines first started appearing. It was also the era of aggressive typo squatting domains.

    AskJeebes dot com was a hardcore porn site.

  • @jeffw@lemmy.world
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    Jeeves, why would the world be a different place if Ask Jeeves won the search engine wars?

    • @shyguyblue@lemmy.world
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      “Just Jeeves it” doesn’t quite roll off the tongue…

      • @Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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        Well no…it would have been “Just Ask Jeeves”.

  • bizarroland
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    The first company to sell their soul to mammon was going to win the search engine wars.

    If it hadn’t been googie it would have been whoever inked the first contract.

  • @bungle_in_the_jungle@lemmy.world
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    Indubitably!

  • VodkaSolution
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    My heart will always host Altavista but… we’d have JVS.IT url shortner for sure

  • @Godort@lemm.ee
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    “I prefer jovial” would’ve become the goto rainbow capitalist phrase

  • @Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    Does ai have a place in the ask Jeeves search engine?

  • DreamButt
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    Time to name my llm experiment Jeeves

  • @TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works
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    might?

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