Jeeves has left the building for good.
In 1996 the site askjeeves.com was founded, and the site featured a gentleman named Jeeves that would basically fetch the answers to your questions. The character is said to be based on a fictional valet.
The site was founded by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, and it's headquarters are in Oakland.
The innovative idea behind this site was using natural language, that would allow users to search in question form. Ten years later, by 2006 Jeeves had been phased out and the search engine was just known as ask.com.
With Google and Yahoo! monopolizing search engines, Ask.com decided to give up its web search.
They say that they will be stopping the development of the current searching and simply focusing efforts on their Q&A service.
The company InterActiveCorp, who bought Ask.com in 2005 for $1.85 billion hasn't been able to make the money needed to help compete with Google or Bing.
