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jeffw@lemmy.world 3 months agoAsk Jeeves wasn’t an actual person though
Comment on Before Smartphones, an Army of Real People Helped You Find Stuff on Google
jeffw@lemmy.world 3 months agoAsk Jeeves wasn’t an actual person though
IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Ask Jeeves was a “question answering service” back then. They had a staff of human editors who curated answers to popular questions. Nothing they answered back then was done via search.
Source: I worked for a search engine startup in the 90’s that was acquired by Ask Jeeves when they realized they needed a true search technology since human editing wasn’t scalable.