Ask Jeeves Hats

Description: Even the Darkest Questions Answered with Lighting Fast Results.

Description: Remembering the Ask Jeeves search engine. Ask Jeeves was a character-driven search engine. Founded in 1996, Ask Jeeves featured a well-dressed butler who supposedly fetched search results and was able to understand questions posed in everyday phrasing.

Description: Vintage-Ask-Jeeves-Search-engine

Description: Ask Jeeves

Description: Vintage-Ask-Jeeves-Search-engine

Description: A retro-style cartoon shows a man in a grey suit, black tie, and white shirt adjusting his buttons. To his left, an oval-shaped sign with a distressed texture displays the words "Ask Jeeves" in a bold, cream-colored font.

Description: Ask Grady/The Shining Ask Jeeves Design

Description: A vintage-style depiction of a man in a black formal suit and bowtie, standing to the right of the text 'Ask Jeeves' with a registered trademark symbol. The text has a distressed, cream-colored finish against a black background.

Description: Ask Jeeves 1995

Description: Ask Jeeves 1995

Description: Ask Jeeves was a character-driven search engine that was founded in 1996. Ask Jeeves featured a well-dressed butler who supposedly fetched search results and was able to understand questions posed in everyday phrasing. Natural language processing is still tricky for developers of virtual assistants today, so this was a pretty lofty pre-Y2K goal, to say the least. Ask Jeeves lasted until roughly 2005, when it was rebranded as Ask, but ultimately ended its foray into search engineering in 2010.