{"id":19902,"date":"2026-05-03T00:00:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T00:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/farewell-jeeves-ask-com-shuts-down\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T00:00:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T00:00:54","slug":"farewell-jeeves-ask-com-shuts-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/farewell-jeeves-ask-com-shuts-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell, Jeeves: Ask.com shuts down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ask.com, 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 precursor to today&rsquo;s AI-powered chatbots. For most of its 30-year history, however, it&rsquo;s been overshadowed by other search products, especially Google.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Holding company IAC acquired Ask Jeeves in 2005, quickly dropped &ldquo;Jeeves&rdquo; from the name, and by 2010 had scaled back its search product to refocus on Q&amp;A. That same year, IAC Chairman Barry Diller said at TechCrunch Disrupt that Ask.com was not competitive with Google and was not valued in IAC&rsquo;s stock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A message on the Ask.com website currently reads, &ldquo;As 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&rsquo;s questions, Ask.com officially closed on May 1, 2026.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nonetheless, the website insists, &ldquo;Jeeves&rsquo; spirit endures.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Farewell, Jeeves: Ask.com shuts down<\/sub><\/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 on answering conversational questions posed in natural language, was arguably a precursor to today&rsquo;s AI-powered chatbots. For most of its 30-year history, however, it&rsquo;s been overshadowed by other search products,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/farewell-jeeves-ask-com-shuts-down\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Farewell, Jeeves: Ask.com shuts down&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}