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Don't Ask Jeeves
Yet another archive of a Yahoo post.
Speaking of which, those posts are deleted after a while...what happens to them? It's interesting that millions of online conversations take place on privately-owned (mostly corporate) websites, which places huge amounts of often stupid and pointless but sometimes vital and important dialog in private hands.
CNN used to have a HUGE message board area, with literally millions of posts, but one day they simply all disappeared without any explanation. I'm still not sure why it happened, although I'd noticed that they tended to delete threads that got too critical of George W.
I wrote to Salon suggesting that they do an article about it, but they never wrote back.
Oh well. Here's the comment. The subject was an article about a new advertising campaign by the Ask Jeeves search engine, which is currently ranked a very low fifth in popularity.
Yeah, I'm pretty cranky today. Had about the worst weekend imaginable, barring a car accident or surgery. One of those weekends that's so awful that if I'd known in advance, I'd have stayed at work. Plus I've got a massive headache to boot.
Life sucks.
Speaking of which, those posts are deleted after a while...what happens to them? It's interesting that millions of online conversations take place on privately-owned (mostly corporate) websites, which places huge amounts of often stupid and pointless but sometimes vital and important dialog in private hands.
CNN used to have a HUGE message board area, with literally millions of posts, but one day they simply all disappeared without any explanation. I'm still not sure why it happened, although I'd noticed that they tended to delete threads that got too critical of George W.
I wrote to Salon suggesting that they do an article about it, but they never wrote back.
Oh well. Here's the comment. The subject was an article about a new advertising campaign by the Ask Jeeves search engine, which is currently ranked a very low fifth in popularity.
Why doesn't anyone use Ask Jeeves?
Simple: it sucks. Maybe if they took some of that ad campaign money and built a decent search engine they'd get some respect...but Google beat them to it, so they're screwed.
What American business needs today is a sort of modern-day version of Bushido. There are a lot of top executives who make really boneheaded decisions, or just plain greedy ones. We'd see a huge improvement in our economy if all of those executives were required to atone for their failures and shame by eviscerating themselves.
Preferably on national TV.
Yeah, I'm pretty cranky today. Had about the worst weekend imaginable, barring a car accident or surgery. One of those weekends that's so awful that if I'd known in advance, I'd have stayed at work. Plus I've got a massive headache to boot.
Life sucks.
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Ask Jeeves was a great idea if it had worked as advertised. The problem was that it didn't. Software still isn't good enough to understand natural human language, and when it comes to keyword searches Google does as good a job as you could want.
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And then more of the same happens, over and over and over again? Well, that's not exactly what happened to me, but it was close enough. It got to the point where I just wanted to crawl into bed, pull the covers over my head, and wait for the world to go away.
That wasn't an option, so I stayed up all hours of the night taking my Diablo II barbarian up to 19th level. There was no way I was going to sleep anyway, since I was just too pissed off and upset.
Now it's Monday, and I might as well not have had a weekend at all. Pounding headache, no sleep, and just generally feeling like sh_t.