Friday, September 30, 2005

Jeeves will leave soon


www.aj.com is one of the cool search engines I have found. The genteel butler [means - friendly, upper class servant] that has been Ask Jeeves Inc.'s face for nearly a decade is getting ousted in a corporate takeover.“Not that I don't like that fat butler," said the new chairman Barry Diller.

Ask Jeeves spent more than $100 million building its brand around the cartoon butler during the dot-com boom. Jeeves is the name of the "gentleman's gentleman" or valet, supposed to be the person who fetches you the answers of any query you ask. The character is based on Jeeves, Bertie Wooster's fictional valet from the works of P. G. Wodehouse. On 23 September the company announced plans to phase out the character

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