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  • 72 of 72 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Dominic2001

    4 Stars I've found a man who can 01/07/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages you can ask in plane english

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Jeeves will try to get you to buy a book when he's stumped

    "I say Jeeves, what time was I to meet Cat's Meat down at the drones for a game of Slosh?" Jeeves shimmered out of the room, and promptly reappeared with a cheque for £1,000,000. "Topper, where did you get that? Did your gege come in at Goodwood?" I said with something of a knitted brow. "No Sir, if you ask me the right question, this could be yours." From Jeeves jumps on the bandwagon P.G.Woodehouse 1936 Jeeves, P.G.Woodehouse's immortal character, valet (for valet he was, a gentleman's gentleman (in the old sense of the word) and not a butler) to Bertie Wooster, now as well known as a ... more
  • 26 of 26 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    vinodgm

    4 Stars The Butler That Delivers 19/09/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Different concept for a Search Engine, You can ask actual questions, Current content in results

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Occasionally some questions may not be answerable, May be a dissadvantage for those seeking very detailed searches

    Ask Jeeves is the Search Engine with a difference and very unlike your usual Search Engines such as Yahoo and Lycos, to name a few. What struck me most about Ask Jeeves was the simplicity of the start page. An unknowing visitor could not be blamed for mistaking this as a website for a posh restaurant or hotel. Unlike other search engines Ask Jeeves asks you; Have A Question? Let me help you find the answer. This is very unique indeed. Another major difference is that you can ask a full question instead of only a phrase or a keyword. One example I would like to give you in order for you to ... more
  • 58 of 58 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    andyev

    3 Stars That ambling clueless butler... 23/07/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages uses natural language

    Disadvantages Disadvantages answers are frequently less than useful

    'Oh', I lamented in my chair for the fourth time that fine summer's evening, 'Dear Jeeves.... - will you ever learn?' Alas, no, it seems. Jeeves, my internet butler, far from serving me, his master, with any information from the internet I so desire, will be served himself with his P45. I suspect Jeeves has had the tantalus keys copied: I'm sure I could detect the smell of sherry when he told me with a straight face I can buy curtains from an Irish Estate Agent. This is the thing with Jeeves. The site makes a big play about the fact that Jeeves is an intelligent "being". Jeeves, apparently ... more
  • 12 of 12 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    emmahancock99

    5 Stars WIN A MILLION AND ANSWER ALL YOUR QUESTIONS 13/06/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages easy to use, win a million, very thorough result

    Disadvantages Disadvantages none

    Jeeves wants you to ask a question they have never been asked before to win a million pounds! Sounds good but www.askjeeves.com is a massive site which has been going for a while now and therefore this may be more difficult than it sounds! The concept of the site is very simple, all you have to do is go to the site and type your question. Jeeves then finds possible sites that will help you answer your question. Most people have probably heard of this site due to the intense advertising that goes on, it is a very good site for any questions you may have and 9 times out of 10 has provided me ... more
  • 86 of 86 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    nitebabe

    4 Stars Do you want to win a million 02/06/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages it finds what you are looking for

    Disadvantages Disadvantages You have to be very precise in how you ask

    Not much of an update just to say that good old jeeves £1million question has finished and that it looks like he gets to keep it :o( maybe he can buy himself a new suit :o) Here is the challenge! If you think you can ask a question that hasn’t been asked before, the £1million is yours to keep! If you don’t, then don’t worry because you can ask up to fifty questions a day and you will be entered into a daily draw of fantastic prizes which is open until the 12th of July! This is what “Ask Jeeves” is promising at the moment. As a search engine that rampages through ... more
  • 21 of 21 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    chemistangel

    4 Stars Can I help you 08/08/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Easy to use for simple minds like mine

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Not particularly good for indepth research - try google?

    I don't believe it. Dooyoo has everything on it but they have only just added ask.co.uk. Either this is an oversight or I am one of the few using ask Jeeves! How could anyone miss the tacky tv ads asking you to use Jeeves (butler guy from PGWodehouse I think, might be very wrong). Ask is a meta search engine, this means that it searches other search engines, generally lycos, yahoo types. It is easy to use and well laid out. You simply type your question into the central box and click on the 'ask' sign. It always discounts the 'where can i find a site about' part of the question and ... more
  • 18 of 18 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    jimbuck

    5 Stars You Rang Sir 27/04/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Gets you what you want

    Disadvantages Disadvantages You have to do some work though

    The stately homes had one, the wealthy had one and now everybody can have one, their own personal butler. Not to fetch and carry in the real world but to do the fetching in cyberspace. AskJeeves is a brilliant idea to help people find out about any subject under the sun and even on it. Type in www.askjeeves.co.uk and you get a pale yellow box with Jeeves looking as if he is ready to do your bidding. As it says just above a text box all you need to do is type in a question and an answer will be forthcoming. Well not exactly the answer but a pointer to where you can get the answer to your ... more
  • 42 of 42 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Manx

    1 Star Ingore Jeeves, ask Jesus 21/12/2000
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Er.. Newbies like it?

    Disadvantages Disadvantages It doesn't find things you want. It finds the /wrong/ things. It steals your screen.

    If you wanted to find two of the most popular products to write about in Ciao then I would direct you at Google and Ask Jeeves. Pretty much everyone bows down and worships the CyberSpace in which Google rules, but opinions seem to be mixed on Ask Jeeves. Newbies - and it can be pretty easy to spot these people - often seem to like Ask Jeeves, whereas old hats like myself hate it. www.askjeeves.com is an American site. www.ask.co.uk is the British one. At least there is a filter on the dot com which will try and point you in the right direction. Ask Jeeves is a lie. That’s what annoys me the ... more
  • 3 of 3 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    zoelou

    5 Stars ask him please do 19/03/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages easy to use

    Disadvantages Disadvantages sometimes a lot of traffic so its slow

    Jeeves...what a guy every womans dream, well he's mine anyway, hes the answer to my preys when ever i get homework from college i cant do im straight on jeeves like you wouldnt believe. he comes in useful for everything, my two favourite search engineers are certainly jeeves and google. both answer my questions a dream. he always comes up woth the right answers, and he even spell checks things if he doesnt understand the question. he even gives u links to other search engines. his website address is WWW.ASK.COM its easy to use, easy to get around and everythng is explained what could be ... more
  • 19 of 19 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    ia_young

    4 Stars Please ASK me anything you want.... 20/03/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages good search results

    Disadvantages Disadvantages not that fast

    www.Ask.co.uk is the UK version of what must be quite a successful US site www.Ask.com. The advertising for the website here in the UK has been to Ask Jeeves, the internet Butler, and I would say that the adverts have probably been quite successful, as I'm sure the site would not be running if they didn't get enough people using it. ~~Searching~~ The idea behind the site is that you type in something to search for much like most other Internet search engines on the web. But this website is actually different, instead of searching through a directory of websites that it has logged with it, it ... more
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