After 30 years of answering the world's questions, Ask.com officially closed on May 1, 2026.

• Remembering Ask.com from 1996 to 2026? You know the story.

Ask.com or simply Ask (originally known as Ask Jeeves) was an American answer engine, e-magazine, and former web search engine operated by Ask Media Group and owned by People Incorporated. Founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California, the service became one of the earliest prominent search engines on the World Wide Web during the late 1990s and early 2000s. 

• AskJeeves.com: The original Ask Jeeves platform was designed to allow users to submit questions in natural language rather than relying solely on keyword-based searches, a feature that distinguished it from many competing search engines of the era. Its branding centered on the character Jeeves, a valet inspired by the fictional servant created by British author P. G. Wodehouse.
• The Discontinuation of Jeeves and its 10th Anniversary of Ask.com: In 2006, the company discontinued the "Jeeves" branding and relaunched as Ask.com, focusing more directly on competing with major search engines such as Google, Yahoo! Search, and MSN Search. Ask.com operated its own web crawler and search algorithm for several years, though it struggled to maintain market share against larger competitors.
• What Happened? and Went Downhill: In late 2010, Ask.com ceased developing its own search technology and transitioned back toward a question-and-answer format, outsourcing many search functions to external providers. During the 2010s and 2020s, the site increasingly emphasized curated articles, trending topics, entertainment content, and automated news aggregation. After 30 years, Ask.com was shut down on May 1, 2026, ending nearly three decades of operation.

People are so disappointing that they want People Incorporated as well as the support from TechCrunch, Google and others to bring back Ask as a new and improved successor called Ask 2.0, it will be a web search engine, e-magazine and answer engine hybrid which will have an improved search engine, improved question-and-answer format as well as more curated articles, more trending topics,  more entertainment content and more news than its predecessor.

Ask 2.0 is coming soon so sign this petition to bring back Ask and launch a successor called Ask 2.0 with web search engine returning as well as an improved e-magazine and answer engine and others both of which will be an improvement. #BringBackArk