Ask.com , which was called AskJeeves until twenty years ago , is no more. You can tell someone didn’t really use the internet in the 90s if they say AskJeeves was a big part of online life back then. I’ve long held a suspicion that AltaVista, the colossus of search in the pre-Google days , has been memory-holed because it vaguely looks like “AskJeeves” if you squint. Anyway, AskJeeves was kinda fun, because people would be like “The Internet? I’ve seen it joked about on such hit TV programs as Mad About You, but I don’t know what it is.” And you would be like “Oh, you’re missing out! Look, it has a butler who answers questions!” And if the question was “What time is it?” or “How many cups are in a gallon?” the little cartoon Jeeves would give you a credible answer. But most questions didn’t produce anything good. The internet didn’t work for things like that yet, so most queries just produced a boring page of search results.…