Owner IAC says it's discontinuing its search business.

After nearly three decades online, Ask.com has officially ceased operations, marking the end of a once-prominent name in early internet search. Originally launched in 1996 as Ask Jeeves, the platform ...

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

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, formerly known as Ask Jeeves, has officially shut down its search business as of May 1, 2026, after 25 years of ...

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 ...

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 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.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.com has officially shut down after nearly three decades online, marking the end of one of the internet’s earliest search engines.

Ask.com, which was called AskJeeves until twenty years ago, is no more.

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