While Google reigns supreme in the search engine space, it wasn’t always that way - as the company had some stiff competition during its earliest days. Chief among these competitors was the Ask Jeeves ...

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 ...

The pioneering search engine shut down on May 1, after nearly 30 years in operation. By Ali Watkins In the digital wilds of Y2K, we came to him with our most probing questions. He told us about ...

Ask.com, one of the earliest attempts at conversational search engines, has shut down 30 years after its debut. “Every great search must come to an end,” reads the headline on the now-defunct website.

IAC, the owners of Ask.com, have decided to get out of the search business and shut down one of the oldest and most legendary search engines of all time - Ask.com, formerly Ask Jeeves. IAC wrote, "As ...