Search engine Ask ceases service after 25 years “answering the world’s questions”

InterActiveCorp (IAC) has announced the end of the activity of your Ask.com search engine, which has officially stopped being operational since last Friday, May 1, after 25 years “answering the world’s questions.”

Initially known as Ask Jeeves, The search engine was launched in 1997, making it one of the internet services for searching information. oldest today.

After the search engine purchase by the IAC company in the year 2006, Ask Jeeves It was renamed Ask.com, and continued to operate under this organization since then, which also has other internet properties such as Match.com.

Now, IAC has shared that Ask.com has officially no longer availableafter the last Friday, May 1, when its service ceased globally, as detailed on its website.

As he explained, the closure of Ask.com is due to the fact that, as IAC “continues to focus its efforts”, they have taken the decision to put aside its search business, including maintenance of Ask.com.

With this, they have grateful for the work of the “brilliant engineers, designers and teams who created and supported Ask for decades“, as well as the millions of users who asked “looking for answers in an ever-changing world.”