Ask.com is no more: The onetime Burger King to Google's McDonalds has shuttered its search engine after nearly 30 years⁠—though the exact count seems to depend on who you ask⁠—with its website now ...

One of the internet's early search pioneers has quietly reached the end of the road. Ask.com, the website many users still remember as Ask Jeeves, has officially shut down after nearly three decades ...

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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.

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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 ...

The early internet's favorite search engine has gone extinct. Ask.com, born in 1997 as Ask Jeeves, has been shut down by parent company IAC, which quietly ended the search site's run on Friday after ...