Service, launched as “Ask Jeeves” before the turn of the millennium, was one of the oldest internet search engines. On May 1, the operator shut down ask.com.

If you were one of the people who went online during the mid-90s, you didn’t rely on Google if you wanted to find anything across the wild west of the internet. Instead, you may have visited a ...

The pioneering search engine shut down on May 1, after nearly 30 years in operation. By Ali Watkins In the digital wilds of Y2K, we came to him with our most probing questions. He told us about ...