“Getting that integrated with the company is probably the next priority.” He said the average number of search queries at Ask Jeeves was up over 25% from the same time a year ago. “ is a very big business for us,” Diller said. He said that search capability would be “the glue for almost all of our services” at IAC, including Ticketmaster,, Lending tree, and the Citysearch local directories. That research revealed that consumers thought the engine was “old-fashioned” and remembered it primarily as the search that could handle natural-language queries - a feature that has become less important to users than the relevance and scope of results. Ask.com has long been the URL for the Ask Jeeves home page.ĭiller said company research had indicated that the butler icon did not suit the image IAC wanted to convey with its search property. “Jeeves will disappear, and we will probably be called Ask or Ask.com,” Diller said in published reports. News of the booted butler came from Barry Diller, chairman of IAC/InterActive Corp., which purchased the search engine in July. Reports from a Goldman Sachs investor conference in New York Wednesday say the long-time mascot of search engine Ask Jeeves will get his walking papers at some unspecified date. Whelan’s Silent Disco, now every Mon, Tue & Wed from 11pm – 2 DJs, just pick the one you like best plus Late Bar.Jeeves the search butler has heard his master’s voice, and it said: Hit the bricks. Final ticket price may be higher from other outlets. – 50c per ticket service charge applies on phone, internet or credit card bookings. “A song can say in three verses what takes a novel 300 pages to say by what it leaves to the listenerʼs imagination,” Angell concludes, With WP2, Walking Papers have inked an indelible sonic contract that guarantees your ears will gladly come back for more. Walking Papers elevates Angellʼs signature character studies in songs like the explosive “Somebody Else” where he croons: “Outside the cityʼs waiting / for a chance to prove me wrong / Sheʼs trying to talk me into doing something stupid and doesnʼt seem to take her very long.” “I live vicariously through the characters in our songs.” Angell explains “Itʼs healthier for both society and myself that way.” Once again deploying the in-sync production handiwork of mixmasters Jack Endino (Soundgarden, Nirvana, Mudhoney) and Martin Feveyear (Mark Lanegan, Kings of Leon, Queens of the Stone Age), and Justin Smith (War Paint, Eagles of Death Metal, The Ravonettes, Queens of the Stone Age) WP2 builds on the promising template of the bandʼs self-titled 2013 debut, which Classic Rock Magazine called “a masterpiece of mood and tension,” and Rolling Stone Magazine echoed “dark, alternately sensual and sinister.” WP2 brings the band into their wholly ascendant second phase with aurally galvanizing statements like the savage, swaggering backbeat of “Death on the Lips,” the anthemic buildup of “Red & White,” and the delicate yet forceful declarative shuffle of “Donʼt Owe Me Nothinʼ.” Walking Papers upped the sonic ante with their aptly dubbed second album WP2, released earlier this year from Loud & Proud Records. Many of the songs on WP2 were written while touring there and Iʼm excited to bring them back to people and places that inspired them.” “The energy and enthusiasm of the fans in Europe and the UK make that easy to do. When performing live, I let the moment capture me.” Says Jeff Angell of Walking Papers. “When writing a song, I try to capture a moment. Walking Papers are proud to announce a 7 UK dates and a 12 European dates for what promises to be one of the essential tours of 2018.
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