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Today, we are forced to ask Google, Alexa, or Siri to do things for us, or to tell us things.

Unless we’re really desperate. Then we are forced to ask Cortana.

But the present generation of virtual assistants would never have come into being were it not for Jeeves, the valet character created by PG Wodehouse who served as a search engine mascot for about ten years. We paid a visit to Jeeves in 2005, shortly after his employers announced that he was being phased out. The results were surprising.

Actually, is surprising the right word?

If only we could ask Jeeves that question.