Blogger comes to defense of Jeeves

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When IAC CEO Barry Diller confirmed last month that the company would do away with the butler mascot at Ask Jeeves, he added a gratuitous jibe: “I don’t see many tears on the floor.” Not so. One anonymous former Ask Jeeves employee has taken up a campaign to save the dapper butler with, what else, a blog. On it, the unnamed Jeevesophile explains his motivation as pure loyalty after “many years of service to the butler.”

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