Ask.com, the search engine and question-and-answer service formerly known as Ask Jeeves, has shut down. Ask Jeeves first launched in 1996 and, with its focus on answering conversational questions ...

Ask.com (Ask Jeeves) shut down on May 1, 2026, as IAC exits the search business. Launched in 1997 with a plain-English butler, it rebranded to 'Ask' in 2006 but lost to Google. We're a little ...

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.com has pulled the plug after nearly 30 years, taking its polite digital-butler search engine, Jeeves, with it. A 1999 press release boasted that “Jeeves” answered 92.3 million questions in just ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ask Jeeves, the search engine known for welcoming questions written in plain English, has shut down after 29 years.

In the digital wilds of Y2K, we came to him with our most probing questions. He told us about Britney Spears, tamagotchis, former President George W. Bush and Beanie Babies. We asked, and he answered: ...