Ask Jeeves feels like a relic of a bygone era, but it was great at the time.

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 ...

Ask.com has shut down after nearly three decades as a search engine. Parent company IAC discontinued its search business as part of a strategic refocusing. Ask Jeeves launched in the late 1990s with a ...

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.

A message on the Ask.com website currently reads, “As IAC continues to sharpen its focus, we have made the decision to discontinue our search business, which includes Ask.com. 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 ...