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 on answering conversational questions ...

The early search engine had a beloved brand and prescient goals. Then it trashed them—right before they might really have gone places. Hello again, and welcome back to Fast Company’s Plugged In.

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

The death of Ask.com is, perhaps, a Rorschach test for our current digital crossroads: proof of the internet’s unyielding change-or-die law, or the decay of a simpler digital time. — Photo by Michael ...

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 ...