Ask.com has closed
supermdguy
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May 02, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (20 comments)
EricRiese
Pour one out
arm32
Sad what it had become: https://web.archive.org/web/20260316143530/https://www.ask.c...
sixo
Missed opportunity to name an LLM "Jeeves" and finally live up to the vision.
Lorin
Would have been a great domain with the rise of AI, shocking they didn't adapt the persona.
esseph
Huh. https://www.askjeeves.com is that a spoof of ask.com?
UltraSane
I wonder what it was like working for them.
abhinavsharma
Did they get a great deal for the domain from an AI lab?
randfur
No shoutout to P.G. Wodehouse for the IP?
fudgeonastick
https://ask.com/ is my go-to site that I know will be up, but I know will not be in my DNS or browser cache. I use it as my "wait, is my internet really working" check. I hope the domain lives on, and that I don't want to visit it.
jsweojtj
I want to know what was the first and last question asked of Jeeves.
buildsjets
Oh my, I remember the time they sent a friend of mine a cease-and-desist. https://web.archive.org/web/20001017194117/http://www.askgee...
xivzgrev
launched 26 years ahead of its time (LLMs)!
firefoxd
Where do I buy it? Who wants to join me and buy it together?
lldb
It's mildly interesting that this landing page is hosted on github pages: https://github.com/askmediagroup/ask.com
solomonb
Man as a teenager I was in a Day of Defeat clan with a couple of the Ask Jeeves engineers. They were really cool.
namegulf
You have a great and well known domain name, why not launch a GPT powered LLM on it? It's a huge opportunity.
sgammon
End of an era
cyode
“Jeeves’ spirit endures.” This goes hard. While he never married or had children, Jeeves is survived by his brother software butlers Jenkins and Alfred who have asked the public for privacy during this difficult time.
tux033
The idea of natural-language search was early, but the brand may have made it feel less technical than it really was. https://tux.re/forum/viewtopic.php?t=212
avazhi
Been using the net for 26 years and I never once used that website. Or maybe I used it once and it was so dog shit that I thought it was just a spam website. Wonder how much they’ll get for the domain name though.