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 ...

After nearly three decades online, Ask.com has officially ceased operations, marking the end of a once-prominent name in early internet search. Originally launched in 1996 as Ask Jeeves, the platform ...

Ask.com, formerly known as Ask Jeeves, has officially shut down its search business as of May 1, 2026, after 25 years of ...

Software that collects public data from the Internet and uses it to provide half-assed answers to your questions might seem like a modern craze, but today we bid farewell to a website that helped ...

Remember Ask Jeeves? The original portal for asking questions on the web is now no more.

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.

Ask.com, originally founded as the Y2K stalwart Ask Jeeves, is officially dead. "As IAC continues to sharpen its focus, we have made the decision to discontinue our search business, which includes Ask ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ask Jeeves, the search engine known for welcoming questions written in plain English, has shut down after 29 years.

Ask.com has formally shut down after nearly three decades online. Its exit comes as AI tools revive the conversational search style it once championed.

Hello again, and welcome back to Fast Company’s Plugged In. Upon hearing of a celebrity’s death, have you ever been startled to realize that they hadn’t left us long ago? That happened to me last ...