Save Jeeves | 08/10/05 - 13.57 |
This is a new blog that calls for the saving of the Ask Jeeves character. Apparently Interactive Corp. (the new owners of Ask Jeeves) what to dump the butler figure.
The blog was created and is written by an ex-Jeeves worker who feels that dropping the Butler would be the worst move the company could take. In the extremely long posts he says “the butler commands loyalty” and claims that Ask.com has a user base that is quite seperate from the big name engines of Google and the like.
I find this all rather amusing after yesterday I got a visitor to my site (infact to this very blog) who had searched for “the worlds best mathematician” on Ask Jeeves. The second result was this post which does not provide the answer to the question at all. I think Ask Jeeves need to concentrate on their results and not their icon.
Search Engine Watch (my post) offers suggestions to changes to other engines logos.