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[-] yucandu@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago

In the early days of search engines, people learned all the tricks like + signs and "quotation marks" and then this site was like "what if we just let people ask questions in human readable english?" and it worked about as well as you'd expect such a product from 2001.

[-] bamboo 18 points 1 day ago

The one thing I remember from that time was they had a section on the homepage of Ask Jeeves with recent searches from other users, and there was basically no filter to hide people's searches for porn.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

"I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."

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