{"id":109257,"date":"2026-05-03T11:12:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T11:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/farewell-jeeves-ask-com-shuts-down\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T11:12:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T11:12:41","slug":"farewell-jeeves-ask-com-shuts-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/farewell-jeeves-ask-com-shuts-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell, Jeeves: Ask.com shuts down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/ask.com\/\">Ask.com<\/a>, the search engine and question-and-answer service formerly known as Ask Jeeves, has shut down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ask Jeeves first launched in 1996 and, with its focus on answering conversational questions posed in natural language, was arguably <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2023\/03\/ask-jeeves-chatgpt-bing-ai-chatbot-google-search\/673275\/\">a precursor to today\u2019s AI-powered chatbots<\/a>. For most of its 30-year history, however, it\u2019s been overshadowed by other search products, especially Google.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Holding company IAC <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iac.com\/press-releases\/iac-completes-acquisition-of-ask-jeeves\">acquired Ask Jeeves<\/a> in 2005, quickly dropped \u201cJeeves\u201d from the name, and by 2010 had <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/10\/technology\/internet\/10ask.html?src=busln\">scaled back its search product<\/a> to refocus on Q&amp;A. That same year, IAC Chairman Barry Diller said at TechCrunch Disrupt that <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/ask.com\/\">Ask.com<\/a> was not competitive with Google and was <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/09\/29\/diller-ask-com-has-no-value-inside-of-iac\/\">not valued in IAC\u2019s stock<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A message on the <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/ask.com\/\">Ask.com<\/a> website currently reads, \u201cAs IAC continues to sharpen its focus, we have made the decision to discontinue our search business, which includes Ask.com. After 25 years of answering the world\u2019s questions, Ask.com officially closed on May 1, 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nonetheless, the website insists, \u201cJeeves\u2019 spirit endures.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/05\/02\/farewell-jeeves-ask-com-shuts-down\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}