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[rosabuddatchery.livejournal.com]

My current gripe/mission is with the AskJeeves website that shirks the canons of common decency and still, despite several emails from myself and others in this community, refers to Jeeves as a--mind you, this may come as a shock; out with the smelling salts--butler. It is a common misconception for those not knowledgeable of our gentleman's gentleman to think of him as some mysterious paragon of the downstairs staff, but we, of course, see the flagrant err and that is why I politely ask, for those that are willing, to pop a few words--preferably of the indignant kind--into an email along the vein of, "you heartless fools; fix this at once." My reasoning is if enough people write, maybe they'll change their "put the butler in your browser" line to "put the valet in your browser."

Of course, this may render confusion among the lesser minded masses, "Jeeves parking cars, what?" but an aberration is an aberration and let the lesser minded masses be damned as they are no concern of mine. Our man Jeeves is being mislabeled and that is far more important than they.

So, if anyone is willing to rally round and send a bit of ire to them through the wires, I'd be most appreciative. I hate that they're capitalizing on Plum's character without paying proper due.

That would appear to be all.

Pip-pip.

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[skutir.livejournal.com]

Well, they won't fix that thing but they do give proper due, with a link on the main page to info on P.G. Wodehouse. They added the content on Wodehouse to appease his family. BTW, if you go to "about jeeves," they describe him as "the ultimate gentleman's gentleman," so they can't make up their minds.

Here's a funny article from BBC.com from before the settlement between AskJeveves.com and the Wodehouse estate:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/628241.stm

Interestingly, AskJeeves.com is only the second most famous search engine that takes its name from literature. "Yahoo" was originally coined by Swift in Gulliver's Travels... I'm sure the Yahoo company is as ignorant of that as the Ask Jeeves company was of Wodehouse.

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[rosabuddatchery.livejournal.com]

I know they're never going to fix it; it's just a ratty, rotten, unfortunate thing that sets me reeling. We all need something to cling to and I suppose this is mine. I saw "the ultimate gentleman's gentleman" line also when I poked through the site and it made me laugh that they had it correct there, but not on the main page--severe consistency problems and bad form. Jeeves cannot be both, unless he's a multipurpose man-of-all-work and I don't see him readily accepting a position like that.

Thanks for that link, it was amusing; I loved all the alternate literary character ideas for the site.

It wouldn't surprise me in the least if Yahoo doesn't know from whence it stems. It appears to be a sorry theme in these search engines. The sad bit is that all they need do is type their name into their engine and maybe something enlightening would come up.

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[skutir.livejournal.com]

I just though of a third one -- Apple calls their search feature Sherlock. These computer geeks just can't stop stealing famous characters from literature.

[soupytwist.livejournal.com]

I'd be slightly worried if they did know where Yahoo came from, given what it actually meant. Heh.

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[skutir.livejournal.com]

You're right... Yahoos aren't that positively portrayed in Gulliver...

[oscar-dom.livejournal.com]

Excellent article that, I think ask Winston Smith would be fantastic :p