IAC Shuts Down Ask.com After 29 Years — Dot-Com Icon Closes

IAC is shutting down Ask.com as it 'continues to sharpen its focus.' Ask Jeeves launched in 1997 — a year before Google — and operated for 29 years as one of the internet's earliest search brands.

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IAC Shuts Down Ask.com After 29 Years — Dot-Com Icon Closes

IAC is shuttering Ask.com, citing a continued sharpening of strategic focus. Ask Jeeves — the question-answering search engine that launched in 1997, a full year before Google — became a mainstream brand before losing the search wars and quietly operating for nearly three decades. The closure marks the end of one of the earliest surviving commercial websites from the original dot-com era. IAC has not announced any asset sale or successor product.

Why It Matters

The Ask.com shutdown closes a chapter of pre-Google internet history and signals that legacy search infrastructure has no viable second life in an AI-native search landscape.

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