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Popular 90s search engine ‘Ask Jeeves’ finally bites the dust — parent company shutters website that pioneered natural language queries, only a placeholder results page remains

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Tom's Hardware

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May 3, 2026

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The parent company of the popular 90s search engine Ask Jeeves, IAC, has decided to shut down Ask.com after 30 years of service. Ask Jeeves was known for its natural language queries, a precursor to modern AI chatbots, but it couldn't compete with Google and Yahoo in the 2000s. Despite its innovative approach, Ask Jeeves will now join other '90s search engines like Alta Vista in retirement. The decision to discontinue Ask.com marks the end of an era for the pioneering search engine.

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