The pioneering search website Ask.com shut down its search services on May 1, 2026 The company launched in 1997 as AskJeeves.com with an eponymous butler as a mascot. Ask.com’s parent company, IAC, ...
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How Ask Jeeves blew it

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The Ask Jeeves home page is seen in Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, March 21, 2005. Shares of Ask Jeeves Inc., an Internet search engine, rose 23 percent after the Wall Street Journal said Barry Diller's ...