I haven't been to
Ask.com (or Ask Jeeves as I once knew it) in a looooooooooooong time (I'm gonna say since 2005?), but in the course of my tasks today, I ended up there. What I saw made me want to venture to one of my favorite sites/time wasters on the internet:
Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. It shows you what a website looked like on a certain date. Here is a rough timeline for Ask.com that I created from their archives:
Notice the obvious progression towards basically a copy of everyone's
favorite Search Engine, whose clean, simple homepage hasn't really changed much at all in the last 10 years:
I kinda miss Jeeves....
Here are some
more website evolution favs. Any other websites whose evolution from conception to today that interest you?
3 comments:
I miss Jeeves a little, too.
My next Yaybia post is gonna be about this search engine, which I think makes PERFECT sense for our multi-tasking, ADD generation. Who knows, that could've been Jeeves if they hadn't decided to play copycat...
libby, I love Kosmix.
Oooh... Yaybia spoilers!
Another engine I find interesting is www.quarkbase.com
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