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

Ask.com, the search engine previously known for its butler mascot named Jeeves, has officially shut down. While Ask Jeeves ...

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

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 ...

Ask.com posted a farewell message on its website, announcing that the search engine would shut down as of Friday, May 1.

Ask.com is shutting down its search business after nearly 30 years as parent IAC refocuses operations, marking the end of an early internet search brand.

Ask.com has officially shut down its search business after 25 years, with parent company IAC confirming the closure from May 1, 2026. The move ends the run of Ask Jeeves, one of the early web’s ...

Ask.com provides a question-and-answer feature that uses semantic search technology to interpret the questions and return relevant answers found on the Web Ask.com plans to upgrade its search engine ...

In what’s likely to be seen as a privacy-friendly move, IAC Search & Media’s Ask.com search engine Tuesday announced a new feature called AskEraser that deletes a user’s search activity data from the ...