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Ask.com, former home of search butler Jeeves, closes just as conversational search comes back
Like actual butlers, this relic of the first dotcom boom has been a quaint anachronism for decades In the mid-1990s, search engine designers settled on the user interface that dominates to this day: a text box into which users enter text, and a resulting list of websites....
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