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

IAC has shut down Ask.com, ending the Ask Jeeves search service after roughly 30 years.

AskJeeves.com still exists only in a limited form, but the long-running search brand is effectively retired.

The closure highlights how early search engines were overtaken by Google, Yahoo, and later AI-era search tools.

Ask Jeeves was an early pioneer of natural-language search and a memorable brand of the 90s internet.