Happy Birthday, Jeeves.

Everyone’s favorite little engine that could celebrated its eighth birthday on April 7th. Why they didn’t mention it on the actual anniversary day, we don’t know but Happy Birthday anyway. Senior designer, Gary Chevksy wrote a blog entry reminiscing about the good old days and there’s a nice pictorial evolution of the butler himself to go along with it.

Ask Jeeves made their name with natural language searching and just continues to improve. Here’s to eight more, folks.

Susan Esparza is former managing editor at Bruce Clay Inc., and has written extensively for clients and internal publications. Along with Bruce Clay, she is co-author of the first edition of Search Engine Optimization All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies.

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Posted by Susan Esparza on April 11th, 2005 at 8:56 am

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