Too true. I worked there.

Ask Jeeves hired hundreds of cheap liberal arts majors to classify data, some users thought Jeeves was real, the stock spiked when big companies hired Jeeves to automate support thinking it was a silver bullet, and the whole thing collapsed when a better model came along, and it degenerated into ripping off rubes with bottom of the barrel ads.

Sounds like the story of OpenAI in 6 years

Damn, what a way to go.

I met one of the founders once in Oakland. Amazing fella.

You found the joke!

this was the comment i came here for

My bots are all named Jeeves lol. I have a CLI tool I use that connects up to a LLM I made and I call it Jeeves too ...so funny. I really didn't use Jeeves all that much I tended to use...I think it was called Web crawler pre-google era

I used Altavista

lol was thinking the exact same, named some ML projects Jeeves along the way...