Red, white and blank: the new Ask home page sans Jeeves |
We’ve known for awhile that Barry Diller wanted to axe Jeeves, the famous butler, and now we finally get to see what things look like without him:
The Digg submitter notes (digg story):
Jeeves is gone, the design has changed a bit, and there’s a neat new side bar.
It’s nice to see Bloglines get some prime real estate, but I don’t care for the new design sans Jeeves. It sort of feels … empty. And the search still isn’t very good either.
Good thing I bought stock in the company for the domain primarily — which I still believe ask.com is one of the best domain properties on the web — but I think to date it has remained under-utilyzed. Fellow investors, let’s hope more is coming than icing their icon.
Do you like the new Ask.com? Should they have done more with it?
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Seems like they axed some name recognition along with the butler, IMHO.
Comment by Sterling Camden — February 27, 2006 @ 2:12 pm PST
I have a friend who’s a senior engineer at Bloglines and he’s been telling me that Ask has been working hard to revamp their search and come out as legitamite search option. I don’t think I’ll start using ask (I use bloglines all the time) but you have to give them credit. I think the new front page looks much better than Google’s, Yahoo’s or MSN’s. That’s why I submitted it to digg.
Comment by Bjorn — February 27, 2006 @ 3:06 pm PST
Thanks for stopping by and commenting Bjorn. No, I don’t “have to give them credit” and I rather like the plain Google setup. I don’t care for the blue header of MSN and Yahoo? Well, they have too much advertising blended in with the results. I’m disappointed that Ask didn’t do something with some curves and rounding edges instead of the same blocky read/white design. They didn’t have to throw out their brand/color but it looks more like they just ripped Jeeves out and added the sidebar.
Comment by TDavid — February 27, 2006 @ 3:10 pm PST