""We are deeply grateful to the brilliant engineers, designers, and teams who built and supported Ask over the decades. And to you-the millions of users who turned to us for answers in a rapidly changing world-thank you for your endless curiosity, your loyalty, and your trust.""
""Jeeves' spirit endures.""
""The former search engine went live as AskJeeves.com in April 1997 before launching in full at the beginning of June that year.""
""The company tried to differentiate itself among competing search engines by encouraging users to frame their search queries in the form of a question.""
Ask.com, famous for its animated butler Jeeves, announced the shutdown of its search engine operations effective May 1. The website now redirects to a farewell message expressing gratitude to the engineers, designers, and users who supported the service. InterActivCorp (IAC), the parent company, decided to cease all search operations, marking the end of an era for the once-popular search engine that encouraged users to ask questions. AskJeeves.com launched in 1997 and aimed to differentiate itself by allowing users to frame queries as questions.
Read at FOX 5 DC
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]