Rare Vintage 1996 Early Internet ASK Jeeves Advertising Promotional Umbrella For Sale
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Rare Vintage 1996 Early Internet ASK Jeeves Advertising Promotional Umbrella
Price: US $9.99
Rare Vintage 1996 Early Internet ASK Jeeves Advertising Promotional Umbrella 35" long (folded), 40" in diameter (open) Featuring sample natural language questions about rain, and a pair of Logos. Ask Jeeves was a character-driven search engine that was founded in 1996. Ask Jeeves featured a well-dressed butler who supposedly fetched search results and was able to understand questions posed in everyday phrasing. Natural language processing is still tricky for developers of virtual assistants today, so this was a pretty lofty pre-Y2K goal, to say the least. Ask jeeves lasted until roughly 2005, when it was rebranded as ASK, but ultimately ended its foray into search engineering in 2010. Original - New Old Stock - NOS
