Ask's parent company, InterActiveCorp (IAC), discontinued its search business on May 1, 2026.

It’s officially a dead topic for Ask.com. The site has bid farewell to those who relied on the question-and-answer search ...

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 ...

For a generation of early internet users, it was the most courteous corner of the web - a place where questions were asked in plain English and answered, at least in theory, by a genial digital butler ...

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 ...

Owner IAC says it's discontinuing its search business.

REVOLUTIONARY internet search engine Ask.com has officially shut down after almost 30 years. Early internet users will remember the unique search engine, which started as Ask Jeeves in 1996 – ...

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 ...