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Ask Jeeves (later Ask.com) officially closed its search business on May 1, 2026, after nearly 30 years of operation. Launched in 1996 in Berkeley, California, it pioneered natural-language queries represented by its iconic cartoon butler mascot, Jeeves, before being acquired by IAC in 2005 and rebranded.
are you fucking kidding me? the one thing that was invented to be an llm and it’s retired right when they become pervasive
Don’t think I’ve heard about ask.com since Firefox 3 (yes I’m referring to years by their browser version) when Freeware installing random toolbars in your browsers was the rage.
Grok is a poor stand-in, it keeps asking me my skin color before answering questions.
Good ol’ Jeeves didn’t even have to ask, he just knew.
