Timothy Birdnow

This is kind of sad.

When I first got online we used Ask Jeeves all the time and my wife loved it - we never used Google or Yahoo. I think she liked the Butler mascot. Anyway, it's sad to lose another search engine, thus strengthening Google's dominance even more.

There ae so many defunct search engines - MSN, Jeeves, Alta Vista, the dog bone one (can't remember what that was called exactly), etc. Unfortunately they all started using Google to get their search results, meaning you always got the same stuff no matter which engine you used. It shut conservatives out and always Wikipedia came up on top, the corrupt and biased Wikipedia.

There were conservative efforts to make a right wing search engine but they always lacked adequate funding (while Google had been funded by the CIA and wound up on top thanks to government money). Also, Conservapedia recently failed, leaving us without a solid rebuttal to Wiki.

So even though we are starting to make headway in the culture war we are losing access to information and that will only metastasize. Facebook is back to shadow-banning and pulling dirty tricks on conservatives, I might add, even while that duplicitous weasel Zuckerberg has been pretent-cozying up to President Trump.

Be that as it may I'm still just sad to see the demise of Ask. It's the end of an era.

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