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Ask.com was originally called Ask Jeeves and grew popular for searched using natural language

Ask.com was originally known as Ask Jeeves, where 'Jeeves' is the name of the 'gentleman's gentleman', or valet (illustrated by Marcos Sorenson), fetching answers to any question asked.

The character was based on Jeeves, Bertie Wooster's fictional valet from the works of P. G. Wodehouse. The original idea behind Ask Jeeves was to allow users to get answers to questions posed in everyday, natural language.

As time wore on and keyword search engines such as Google rose to prominence, indexing more webpages, Ask Jeeves suffered a loss of many of its users. The technology was reworked to allow keyword searches as well, but by this time Ask Jeeves had dropped below Google, MSN, and Yahoo! in the size of their userbase.

However, because Ask.com was slow to index some new webpages, Ask.com did not suffer the onslaught of computer-generated linkspam results that initially flooded Google Search, MSN Search, and Yahoo! Search and buried significant webpages that Ask Jeeves (or Ask.com) could still find.

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