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1. thm · 1790685618 · focus · HN ↗

   Ask Jeeves - Only took us 30 years to come full circle.

   1. tmnstr85 · 1790686144 · focus · HN ↗

      this was the comment i came here for

      1. onaclov2000 · 1790687507 · focus · HN ↗

         My bots are all named Jeeves lol. I have a CLI tool I use that connects up to a LLM I made and I call it Jeeves too ...so funny. I really didn't use Jeeves all that much I tended to use...I think it was called Web crawler pre-google era

         1. aftbit · 1790693211 · focus · HN ↗

            I used Altavista
   2. victordmor · 1790690920 · focus · HN ↗

      I met one of the founders once in Oakland. Amazing fella.
   3. davedigerati · 1790693625 · focus · HN ↗

      lol was thinking the exact same, named some ML projects Jeeves along the way...
   4. rsingel · 1790696173 · focus · HN ↗

      Too true. I worked there.

      Ask Jeeves hired hundreds of cheap liberal arts majors to classify data, some users thought Jeeves was real, the stock spiked when big companies hired Jeeves to automate support thinking it was a silver bullet, and the whole thing collapsed when a better model came along, and it degenerated into ripping off rubes with bottom of the barrel ads.

      1. NetOpWibby · 1790697375 · focus · HN ↗

         Damn, what a way to go.
      2. kridsdale1 · 1790697873 · focus · HN ↗

         Sounds like the story of OpenAI in 6 years
   5. kkukshtel · 1790697892 · focus · HN ↗

      You found the joke!

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