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 ...

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: ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Search engine AskJeeves.com has rebranded itself as Ask.com, ditched its namesake butler icon and added several new search tools in an effort to woo more users, Barry Diller, chairman and CEO of Ask ...