Jeeves the butler, the face of the Ask Jeeves Web site in recent years, took a forced retirement today — axed in favor of Ask.com, a sleeker, more advanced search engine, according to a statement from ...

The search engine Ask Jeeves’ dapper, grinning butler will soon be out of a job. Jeeves’ pink slip came from IAC/InterActiveCorp Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Barry Diller, who announced the ...

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At the risk of alienating younger audiences, take a moment and ask yourself how you would have found the answer to this headline in the 90s. You might've consulted an online butler named Jeeves who, ...

Search engine AskJeeves.com has rebranded itself as Ask.com, ditched its namesake butler icon and added several new search tools in an effort to woo more users, Barry Diller, chairman and CEO of Ask ...

The butler mascot of the Ask Jeeves search service got the boot yesterday but will always remind me of the pre-Google era when searching online still intimidated most people. Back then, the cartoonish ...

Ask.com has pulled the plug after nearly 30 years, taking its polite digital-butler search engine, Jeeves, with it. A 1999 press release boasted that “Jeeves” answered 92.3 million questions in just ...

LONDON, April 20 (Reuters) - Internet search engine Ask.com is bringing back Jeeves, the quintessentially English butler who serves up answers to search queries, saying its British users missed him ...

While Google reigns supreme in the search engine space, it wasn’t always that way - as the company had some stiff competition during its earliest days. Chief among these competitors was the Ask Jeeves ...

Ask Jeeves spent more than $100 million building its brand around the cartoon butler during the dot-com boom. The marketing blitz paid for a 70-foot Jeeves balloon that floated over Macy’s ...