An ode to Ask Jeeves - the iconic search engine which was ahead of its time
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 search engine. Developed by entrepreneurs Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in 1996 and launched in 1997, the iconic search engine came out a year before Google.
It had some serious backing, as well, with three venture capital firms, Highland Capital Partners, the RODA Group, and Institutional Venture Partners among its notable backers.
I remember using the search engine on clunky old school computers and being met with the prim and proper gentleman, Jeeves himself - named after Bertie Wooster’s valet in the works of PG Wodehouse.
“Have a question? Just type it in and click Ask,” a message on the site read before typing away to your heart’s content.
It was this aspect of Ask Jeeves...
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