Thursday, April 28, 2005

I miss Ask Jeeves

When Ask Jeeves used to be a free community-based search engine, my son and I loved to go to their site to answer questions, each in our specialized field, computers for him, languages for me. I used to stay up late at night to try and answer the questions or read other people's answers. I ended up knowing all the regulars and having my favorites; it was like belonging to a very erudite, encyclopedic-minded family. Then Ask Jeeves kicked us out, to become a publicly traded company on the Nasdaq Index and we all went through a painful period of cold turkey withdrawal.


So this evening, when my son directed me to a similar website called Wondir, after so many years of doing without, I was full of hopes. Alas! The new site is a dud! Repetitive, dull questions from mostly incredibly, eye-rollingly stupid people, half of which seem to be pregnant and the other half looking for answers to their homework questions.


I'll give them a month or two to clean up their act. But the search continues. The quest is still on.

2 comments:

Buddhist with an attitude said...

Oops! Sorry Allen for being so brutally frank; I didn't know anybody would read my blog (beside my family - 1 ½ reader). I apologize if I hurt your feelings. Thank you for taking it so well and best luck in your efforts.

Anonymous said...

You should start a daily project, wich is to use cloravouyence to try to to see angels in magnetic stasis prisons that are in a distant galaxy. Mentally tune into the spirit in a cage and when you think you have seen it start a quality chant or prayer for the friend in outer space. Visit the trapped angels and try to relate to the intense unholy rage of the hostile alians with the telepathy that now exist within you. So pick a Galaxy and SEE several trapped spirit angels at the site.