Ask.com has shut down, ending the Ask Jeeves era just as AI chatbots make question-based search feel normal again.

Owner IAC says it's discontinuing its search business.

The butler is out.

Remember Ask Jeeves? The original portal for asking questions on the web is now no more.

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

Ask.com, one of the earliest attempts at conversational search engines, has shut down 30 years after its debut. “Every great search must come to an end,” reads the headline on the now-defunct website.

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

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Software that collects public data from the Internet and uses it to provide half-assed answers to your questions might seem like a modern craze, but today we bid farewell to a website that helped ...

Ask Jeeves was rebranded in February 2006, changing its name to Ask.com. Now, after 30 years, Ask.com has shut down ...

Before Claude Code, Grok and Gemini, Jeeves was there in a modest, everyman suit. We conversed with him in full sentences and ...