Reality Check by Dave Whamond for February 23, 2012

ask.com can be useful if used right

Hey, Jeeves. Where’s Wooster?

I’m starting to avoid Google, except for science or stuff that can’t be connected with commercials. Using Bing and DuckDuckGo a lot more. Too much tracking.

What is the population of Frostbite Falls?

Actually, it’s just Ask.com anymore: Jeeves got “retired”

I’ll use any search engine that doesn’t want me to install an add on tool bar

WOW! I;m so far out of the loop that my first thought was: BERTIE WOOSTER! I didn’t use “Jeeves” before the 90’s either!

Jeeves was not dropped from Ask Jeeves until 2006. I thought that was a rather bad move, seeing how generic the result was.

I asked Jeeves what happened to his name.