{"id":238063,"date":"2026-05-03T04:20:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T04:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/askjeeves-com-has-died-1996-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T04:20:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T04:20:52","slug":"askjeeves-com-has-died-1996-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/askjeeves-com-has-died-1996-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"AskJeeves.Com Has Died (1996-2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div> <center><br \/><\/p>\n<p>We lost another real one. <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, AskJeeves.com (or simply Ask.com) shut down after 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>It first launched on June 3, 1996. It was one of the first \u201cquestion search\u201d tools.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I regret to inform you that Ask Jeeves is dead. The site closed yesterday. Web 1.0 lost another founder.<\/p>\n<p>Ask Jeeves: 3 June 1996 &#8211; 1 May 2026. Send no memes. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mlwEOiJkTE\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/mlwEOiJkTE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pulp Librarian (@PulpLibrarian) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PulpLibrarian\/status\/2050632662319014106?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 2, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">From 2000-2004 Ask Jeeves graced the Macy&#8217;s Thanksgiving Day Parade in balloon form. He was also a NASCAR sponsor and in later years helped Seattle residents with place-based public information queries. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A9FHntTLxr\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/A9FHntTLxr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pulp Librarian (@PulpLibrarian) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PulpLibrarian\/status\/2050644764937121974?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 2, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ask-dot-com shuts down after 25 years \ud83e\udde0\ud83d\udc94<\/p>\n<p>What happened: <br \/>\u2022 Closed May 1, 2026<br \/>\u2022 Started as Ask Jeeves (1996)<br \/>\u2022 One of the first \u201cquestion search\u201d tools<\/p>\n<p>Why it matters: <br \/>\u2022 Pioneered natural language search<br \/>\u2022 Later relied on Google tech<br \/>\u2022 Lost relevance in the AI era<\/p>\n<p>The\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Cx4fMiLcys\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Cx4fMiLcys<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tech Ultimatum (@TechieUltimatum) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TechieUltimatum\/status\/2050639256847282480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 2, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"cutid1-end\"\/><\/p>\n<p><b><i>ONTD, did you use Jeeves?<\/i><\/b><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.gifer.com\/fxwa.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Sources:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PulpLibrarian\/\" target=\"_blank\">1<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TechieUltimatum\/status\/2050639256847282480?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/center> <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132291990.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We lost another real one. Yesterday, AskJeeves.com (or simply Ask.com) shut down after 25 years. It first launched on June 3, 1996. It was one of the first \u201cquestion search\u201d tools. I regret to inform you that Ask Jeeves is dead. The site closed yesterday. Web 1.0 lost another founder. Ask Jeeves: 3 June 1996 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-238063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}