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Ask.com shuts down after nearly 30 years, marking the end of Ask Jeeves (piunikaweb.com)
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[–] XLE@piefed.social 29 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

After Jeeves acquired us they shut our text ads down and sold the service off to another small company. The Jeeves CEO at the time infamously said “we’re in the question answering business, not the advertising business” when this was sold off.

Wow. They really did die the hero instead of living long enough to become the villain.

They may be idiots, but they're respectable idiots.

[–] limer@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 hours ago

I imagine even if they tried to make a run with the ads, different people who were sociopathic would have still gained the monopoly.

The building of that monopoly required criminal minds