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OBIT: Ask Jeeves Is Gone After Nearly 30 Years Of Search

Ask Jeeves Is Gone After Nearly 30 Years Of Search

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/ask-jeeves-is-gone-after-nearly-30-years-of-search/573617/

  • “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 model that stood apart from keyword-driven search engines.”

Ask.com Shut Down After Almost 30 Years

The end of an era: Ask.com, formerly Ask Jeeves, shuts down

Ask Jeeves from February 29, 2000 via Internet Archive
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Posted on: May 6, 2026, 10:40 am Category: Uncategorized

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