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Ask Jeeves just shut down after 29 years, and nobody noticed (www.xda-developers.com)

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[–] realitista@lemmus.org 17 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Some of these old search engines should go full porn before giving up. There aren't really a lot of great porn aggregators/search engines out there.

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[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Funnily enough Ask Jeeves tried this in the 2000s. They bought domains like AskSex.com when exploring ways to stay relevant.

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