A little long, but that certainly was interesting. I always used Google for searches. I would imagine the Ask Other People section was used to attract to their search engine. Their format was excellent. I wouldn't doubt the only people that are aware of answer boards like this wouldn't have thought of it if it hadn't been from exposure to Jeeve's search engine. But, I didn't use it. I used Google.
There was a massive ammount of posting members at Jeeve's. It was a great site. Maybe if we would have known the searches were counted and if the Ask Other People section was effective, we might have used their engine to keep a site we enjoyed open.