Ask.com shutters, as its owner IAC “continues to sharpen its focus”; a dot-com era icon, Ask Jeeves launched in 1997, a year before Google
“As IAC continues to sharpen its focus, we have made the decision to discontinue our search business, which includes Ask.com.
Mashable Chase DiBenedetto
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@pulplibrarian
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I regret to inform you that Ask Jeeves is dead. The site closed yesterday. Web 1.0 lost another founder. Ask Jeeves: 3 June 1996 - 1 May 2026. Send no memes. [image]
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@doronvermaat
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I am calling it: the https://ask.com/ domain name will soon be sold to (or already has sold) to one of the leading AI companies.
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@sfchronicle
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Early internet search engine https://ask.com/, formerly Ask Jeeves, shut down Friday. Its conversational approach toward questions and answers is now seen as a precursor to today's AI chatbots such as ChatGPT. https://www.sfchronicle.com/ ...
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Pour one out for the unkillable cockroach of the first boom, Ask Jeeves. [embedded post]
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Weirdly, I'm in mourning for a corner of the internet I never used. They've killed Jeeves! — techcrunch.com/2026/05/02/f... [image]