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Popular 90s search engine 'Ask Jeeves' finally bites the dust
The online search valet is finally retiring after 30 years of serving up answers to our millions of questions.
Ask.com has shut down after nearly three decades as a search engine. Parent company IAC discontinued its search business as part of a strategic refocusing. Ask Jeeves launched in the late 1990s with a ...
Ask.com, formerly known as Ask Jeeves, has officially shut down its search business as of May 1, 2026, after 25 years of ...
The pioneering search engine shut down on May 1, after nearly 30 years in operation. By Ali Watkins In the digital wilds of Y2K, we came to him with our most probing questions. He told us about ...
Ask's parent company, InterActiveCorp (IAC), discontinued its search business on May 1, 2026.
Service, launched as “Ask Jeeves” before the turn of the millennium, was one of the oldest internet search engines. On May 1, the operator shut down ask.com.
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