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No more Jeeves: Ask.com officially shuttered
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- Ask.com officially closed on May 1, 2026, marking a 25-year arc and a strategic retreat by IAC from legacy search.
- IAC is retiring Ask.com without pivoting to AI services or new data-center initiatives, signaling a focused wind-down of a 30-year-old brand.
- Ask Jeeves, launched in 1997 with a butler persona, popularized natural-language queries before rebranding to Ask.com in 2006, framing today's AI chat-like search experiences.
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