Ask Jeeves
Web services companywww.ask.com
150
MENTIONS
94
EPISODES
86
PODCASTS
Search complete. 150 mentions across 94 episodes found for "Ask Jeeves".
Sep 13, 2026
David WainerGUEST
it has a slightly better drug.
Miriam GottfriedHOST
Like Ask Jeeves and Google or something like that.
David WainerGUEST
Yeah, exactly.
Miriam GottfriedHOST
[laughs]
SolomonHOST
Oh yeah? Yeah.
DylanHOST
Ask Jeeves.
SolomonHOST
Fucking AI thing made it so hard to find the show.
DylanHOST
I think Yahoo's probably got AI.
Crystal O'KeefeHOST
Like, it's frustrating.
Tom O'KeefeHOST
Might as well use Ask Jeeves.
Crystal O'KeefeHOST
Really? Really.
Crystal O'KeefeHOST
Peloton Artist Collaboration.
Cory DoctorowGUEST
You know, your audience may not remember, but before we had Google, we all asked Jeeves.
Cory DoctorowGUEST
Ask Jeeves was this website that had a butler on the website and you would ask questions and the butler would tell you which web pages to look at.
Cory DoctorowGUEST
And Jeeves was objectively very bad at his job.
Cory DoctorowGUEST
And because he was objectively very bad, very bad at his job, even though he was the, you know, most successful search tool of the day, one day Google just put a stake through his heart.
Chris PetersenHOST
My computer wants to explode trying to look this up.
Chris PetersenHOST
Chris, you still use Ask Jeeves?
Jason HoranHOST
Stop, dude.
Jason HoranHOST
Yeah.
Jeffrey ColeGUEST
They're already had been out to Vista.
Jeffrey ColeGUEST
Yahoo, Ask Jeeves.
Jeffrey ColeGUEST
They knew they just did it so much better in a revolutionarily different style.
Jeffrey ColeGUEST
So knowing that, they expected to be disrupted.
David HendersonGUEST
to minimize churn on our production systems, and then enable a flexible set of tools on the right side of the data ecosystem that our end users are educated enough to use.
David HendersonGUEST
That it's not a matter of really anything more than proficiency on this generation's Ask Jeeves, right? We've got to get them in so that they can learn the new tools.
David HendersonGUEST
And so we're excited about the move, but we got to get away from point to point and get more to central point and secure that all along
Bill PrattMODERATOR
the way.
Bill PrattMODERATOR
That's great.
Bill PrattMODERATOR
And, oh, man, extra points for the Ask Jeeves reference while you're dating.
Bill PrattMODERATOR
Anybody who knows that is an old guy like me.
Bill PrattMODERATOR
Dana, at your organization, are you doing sort of the same thing with regard to data governance and the central repository for the data?
Joe RowanHOST
You know, I've, I've seen the importance and the good work that AI has done.
Joe RowanHOST
I mean, it's [laughs] I think we all remember getting through high school with Ask Jeeves.
Joe RowanHOST
Maybe-
Ty MatthewsGUEST
[laughs]
Arshavir BlackwellGUEST
So from that I went to, I worked for a whole bunch of different, mostly startups or some companies that started as startups and then while I was there they got bigger.
Arshavir BlackwellGUEST
You may remember Ask Jeeves-
Gary PageauHOST
Yeah
Arshavir BlackwellGUEST
...
Alex KonradGUEST
I was at least the first of people I knew in New York City.
Alex KonradGUEST
Everyone was using AltaVista and Ask Jeeves and stuff, and they thought I was stupid.
Alex KonradGUEST
I guess Yahoo, yeah.
Alex KonradGUEST
I told my dad, I was like, you got to get into Google if it ever goes public.
84 more episodes mention Ask Jeeves.
Create an account to see the whole feed, search across every transcript, and follow the entities you care about.