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EWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More.Ask.com, formerly Ask Jeeves, was founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, Calif. But the first visual record we have is from 1999.2Nine Years of Ask.com – March 2000Ask.com was originally known as Ask Jeeves. The character was based on Jeeves, Bertie Woosters fictional valet from the works of P.G. Wodehouse.3Nine Years of Ask.com – October 2000Ask Jeeves home page changed several times around the turn of the century.4Nine Years of Ask.com – October 2001A year later, Ask Jeeves transitioned to a tabbed interface.5Nine Years of Ask.com – July 2002By 2002, Ask Jeeves had graduated to a larger layout. Here, Jeeves on the 4th of July.6Nine Years of Ask.com – October 20027Nine Years of Ask.com – August 2003The Jeeves character changed appearances over the years.8Nine Years of Ask.com – October 20049Nine Years of Ask.com – April 2005For April Fools Day in 2005, Ask Jeeves introduced the Jeeves9000 robot.10Nine Years of Ask.com – November 2005Jeeves goes trick or treating.11Nine Years of Ask.com – April 2006Jeeves the butler was phased out of existence, and by February 2006 he disappeared completely.12Nine Years of Ask.com – June 2007On June 5, 2007, Ask.com unveiled a dramatic improvement to its search interface.

By N/A, 9 years ago | 1 min read Remember how awesome the Internet used to be? In the early days of the Internet, we had a few staple websites that were everything From the advent of sweet gaming sites to crucial music "sharing" apps, the early 2000s was undoubtedly the golden age of the Internet. The most legit sites looked like they'd been cobbled together ad hoc, and we loved it. For the first time, pretty much everyone had Internet in their homes and schools and we could do literally anything we wanted at any time. It was like the Wild West back then, and I miss those days. The Internet's still pretty cool—the legit sites are just a lot more formal and bogged down with advertisements. These sites, however, will make you nostalgic AF for the good old days. 1. Ask Jeeves Remember this search engine? Supposedly, you could type in any question and it would give you an answer. Basically it was a less powerful, more gimmicky Google. Unfortunately, Jeeves isn't around anymore to answer your pressing questions, but its descendant Ask.com is. 2. LimeWire Ah, the early 2000s go-to for music sharing (read: stealing). LimeWire wasn't technically a website—it was a client program—but you needed to use the Internet to download it and the audio that came with it, so close enough in my book.The very first song I ever downloaded was Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir," thanks to LimeWire. Sure, it took like 15 hours to get a single track on dialup, but it was free and 12-year-old me definitely didn't have any money. LimeWire was forced to shut down its free peer-to-peer file sharing after a federal court case in 2010. Ah, I miss those Wild West days of free Internet music. 3. Neopets Was there

To Ask.By the way, ExpertRank was previously known as Teoma — as in the Teomatechnology that Ask acquired as part of getting the Teoma search engine in 2001.The Teoma search engine wasretired inFebruary 2006, and the technology was then rebranded ExpertRank. That’s the samemonth Ask also retiredits Jeeves mascot and the Jeeves portion of its former name, Ask Jeeves, toinstead become Ask.com.Finally, don’t get too used to ExpertRank. Later this year, Ask should bereplacing it with its newEdison technology(and more here: Ask.com’s Usability Architect: Exclusive Interview With Michael Ferguson).Blended Search: Ask3DSearch at Ask, and you’ll get a dramatic difference when compared to Googleor the other major search engines. Consider a search for one of the scariestbeasts known, the potato bug. OK, maybe one of the scariest things to a kidgrowing up in Southern California.Over at Google, potatobug gives you some pictures at the top of the page, then web page results,then some suggestions that you might also want to search for topics such as theJerusalem cricket (it’s real name), along with other popular Southern Californiainsects like "rolly polly bug" or "stink bug."The images coming at the top of the page are part of Google’s new UniversalSearch (see Google 2.0:Google Universal Search), a system designed to automatically blend listingsfrom the web along with those from specialized search resources from news,video, local, book and image search databases.Ask also has a new system of blended search, called Ask3D (seeAsk Relaunches: Now "Ask3D"). Whereas you might overlook Google’s blending (where the approach ismore conservative,