Ex-Employee Crusades to Save Jeeves
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Last week we reported that Barry Diller’s $1.85 billion acquisition of Ask Jeeves would also involve giving the old butler the boot. As a quick re-cap, Diller’s IAC felt that most people did not understand what a butler was. There were also previous attempts to make Jeeves over with a thinner more tanned look, but eventually the new owners decided to pull the plug.
Today, an ex-employee is waging crusade to save Jeeves and of course, even has a blog devoted to the cause. You can read his highly detailed reasoning, on everything from the Jeeves demographic, to the appeal Jeeves has to children, but here’s a quick aside we found interesting:
