A message on the Ask.com website currently reads, “As IAC continues to sharpen its focus, we have made the decision to discontinue our search business, which includes Ask.com. After 25 years of ...

Ask Jeeves feels like a relic of a bygone era, but it was great at the time.

Ask.com shuts down after 29 years, ending the search engine that pioneered conversational queries before AI chatbots made the approach mainstream.

Ask.com is shutting down its search business after nearly 30 years as parent IAC refocuses operations, marking the end of an early internet search brand.

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, ...

REVOLUTIONARY internet search engine Ask.com has officially shut down after almost 30 years. Early internet users will remember the unique search engine, which started as Ask Jeeves in 1996 – ...

Ask.com has pulled the plug after nearly 30 years, taking its polite digital-butler search engine, Jeeves, with it. A 1999 press release boasted that “Jeeves” answered 92.3 million questions in just ...

In the digital wilds of Y2K, we came to him with our most probing questions. He told us about Britney Spears, tamagotchis, former President George W. Bush and Beanie Babies. We asked, and he answered: ...

Ask Jeeves Inc. has decided to cancel one of its programs that allowed companies to pay to have hard-to-index information on their Web sites updated frequently and included in the Ask Jeeves ...

The search engine Ask Jeeves’ dapper, grinning butler will soon be out of a job. Jeeves’ pink slip came from IAC/InterActiveCorp Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Barry Diller, who announced the ...