Ask Jeeves

present singular third person Asks Jeeves · participle present Asking Jeeves · participle past Asked Jeeves · past Asked Jeeves

1. InternetTo search for (something) on the Internet using the Ask Jeeves search engine.

   “I’ve Googled it, Binged it, and Asked Jeeves. They all say the same thing, but I’m not convinced.”

   2015, Sarah Weeks, Honey, New York, N.Y.: Scholastic Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 53

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   Back then Google was still only a small private American company set up by two Stanford University students rather than a globally-recognised verb for finding information online. When we Asked Jeeves about progeria only 2,200 web pages appeared and many of those lacked hard information and facts.

   2011, Hayley Okines, Kerry Okines, Alison Stokes, “Kerry; Learning to Live with Progeria”, in Old Before My Time, Accent Press Ltd, →ISBN, page 23

   “Is Magda dead?” I Asked Jeeves. What I found were 626,000 web pages,[…]So I Asked Jeeves, “Does anyone named Magda live in Levant?” and found an African American woman named Magda Levant, living in Lubbock, Texas.[…]I clicked open the browser and Asked Jeeves, not the answer to my prayers—for there to be no death, for Walter to be here, with me, for me to return to my life back in Monlith, my life before Charlie, before any of this—for I knew no computer could deliver that. No, instead I Asked Jeeves for a way to take action, some help in my effort to make the world a better place, death and all. Walter would have been so proud. “How does one solve a mystery?” I typed. And then, for good measure, I added the word “murder” before “mystery,” since this was indeed what I was dealing with. I scrolled down the search results.[…]I thought to offer the neighbor my wisdom, everything I had learned since I had Asked Jeeves how to solve Magda’s murder.

   2020, Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands, pages 70, 71, 78, and 206