Anonymous1 day ago
Ask.com, the search engine formerly known as Ask Jeeves, officially shut down on May 1, 2026, ending nearly three decades of operation after parent company IAC decided to discontinue its search business as part of a broader corporate restructuring. Once a dot-com darling whose stock peaked at $190.50 per share and was acquired for $1.85 billion, Ask.com's closure represents one of the largest destructions of internet-era acquisition value — and a cautionary tale about a company that pioneered natural-language search decades before the AI search boom made it mainstream.