Received by e-mail:

"We regret to inform you that as of May 16, 2002, Jeeves' Tours will no longer be available. Ask Jeeves will be shifting our resources to our core mission of delivering the most relevant answers to your search queries. We will continue to abide by our privacy policy and have taken steps to safeguard any personal information you have provided us."

Ask Jeeves had bought eTour assets a year ago. In fact I thought that web tours were a rather good idea to handhold beginners through topical discoveries of the web, and eTour used to drive significant traffic to SciFan (my site about science fiction and fantasy books). Well, apparently it didn't bring much to Ask Jeeves except, I suspect, more unsold inventory.