The online search valet is finally retiring after 30 years of serving up answers to our millions of questions.

The early search engine had a beloved brand and prescient goals. Then it trashed them—right before they might really have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Owner IAC says it's discontinuing its search business.

After 29 years in the business, Ask.com (formerly known as Ask Jeeves), has finally closed its doors as of May 1st, 2026. While the writing has been on the wall since Google's search engine took the ...

Ask.com is officially dead. The site has bid farewell to those who relied on the question-and-answer search engine. Known as ...

Ask.com has officially shut down its search business on May 1, 2026, ending a nearly thirty-year run. Parent company IAC discontinued the platform to sharpen strategic focus. The pioneering natural ...

Ask Jeeves Inc. has made three significant enhancements to its search engine, as the Emeryville, California company continues to take aim at its much larger competitors in the search space: Google Inc ...