The AskJeeves butler returns from the dead - in the UK
But it turns out that even after three years Ask Jeeves still has better name recognition in the UK than Ask.com. So the UK team brushed up the butler character, remodeled him in 3D and transformed the UK version of the site into Ask Jeeves once again.
The UK Ask team will also be making a major advertising push using the Ask Jeeves name and logo. Apparently research shows that Americans aren't as keen on Jeeves, and there are no plans to bring the character back. But if you do type www.askjeeves.com into your browser instead of ask.com, you will see the old cartoon version of Jeeves on the search engine.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
