Ask Jeeves Legacy— preserving the stories of Ask Jeeves.
Ask Jeeves was a major search website in the late 1990s and early 2000s. It had a simple user interface and used the Jeeves character, the “internet butler who was at your service.” It stood out from the other search engines of the era. Jeeves had become a cultural icon, and it made the internet approachable for millions of people.
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