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

Ask.com, the search engine and question-and-answer service formerly known as Ask Jeeves, has shut down. Ask Jeeves first launched in 1996 and, with its focus on answering conversational questions ...

Ask.com, once the home of Ask Jeeves and a precursor to ChatGPT, quietly slipped from the internet over the weekend. On Friday, the website published a statement from owner InterActiveCorp (IAC) that ...

The butler has left the building for good. Ask.com, the search engine that millions of early internet users knew as Ask Jeeves, officially shut down its services on May 1, 2026, ending a 25-year run ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — You won't be able to ask Jeeves, the butler who made the search engine now known as Ask.com famous in the late '90s. But in a bid to engage more users, Ask is returning to its ...