Jeeves, the slightly chubby and balding English butler, isn’t the kind of image that e-commerce conglomerate InterActiveCorp wants representing the Ask Jeeves search engine, according to IAC ...

Cartoon Butler Jeeves Gets Sacked September 26, 2005 / 5:30 PM EDT / CBS/AP The genteel butler that has been Ask Jeeves Inc.'s face for nearly a decade is getting ousted in a corporate takeover.

It cost online search engine operator Ask Jeeves Inc. more than $100 million to create a well-known brand built around a drawing of a butler.

A butler in training measures the precise distance between cutlery on a table at China's only foreign-run butler school in Chengdu, Sichuan province, on January 23, 2015.

The genteel butler that has been Ask Jeeves Inc.’s face for nearly a decade is getting ousted in a corporate takeover. Jeeves, the slightly chubby and balding English butler, isn’t the kind of ...

New moguls in China and Brazil have renewed demand for old-school servants. June 7, 2013— -- intro: Americans have long been fascinated by the role of the butler, as the "Downton Abbey" craze ...

A t the risk of alienating younger audiences, take a moment and ask yourself how you would have found the answer to this headline in the 90s. You might've consulted an online butler named Jeeves ...

InterActive Corp's decision to kill Ask Jeeves' iconic butler, a year after buying the search site in 2005, must rank as one of the weirdest decisions in brand marketing.So now the site is undoing ...