Batch Rejection by Garey McKee for August 12, 2024

gosh does it exist still?!?!

According to Wikipedia Ask Jeeves changed it’s name to Ask.com.

You’ll have to form a dogpile.

If 1918 is nearby, you go THERE.

It is somewhat sad that we knew what she was talking about.

Ask Google!

Few will have known that “Ask Jeeves” referred to the fictitious, ultimate valet “Jeeves” in P.G. Wodehouse’s stories. Jeeves was able to continually save Bertie by judicious application of the “psychology of the individual”.

Wodehouse was a master of building the elements of a story piece-by-piece to a surprising conclusion. If you can find the story “The Song of Songs”, read it. Jeeves was the best.

Their HQ was in Oakland, CA. I think ask dot com was the successor company. I miss alta vista.

Maybe you should ask Jeeves about that.

Timely question

I’d be happy if google just worked. It used to be so functional. Now, Boolean is unreliable there, the implicit “or” means 99% of the results are wrong, and the greed means that the first page is full of ads. Sad as hell.

The good old days, when times were simpler