Parent company IAC ended the service in a broader refocus; the site began in 1996 as Ask Jeeves and was acquired by IAC in 2005.
The company dropped the Jeeves brand and, by 2010, had already shut its web crawler and outsourced core search, ending one of the last major pre-Google consumer search names.
Ask Jeeves popularised natural-language questions, and its closure comes as Google pushes AI Overviews and AI Mode built around conversational search.
With AI Overviews answering queries directly, what is the new survival model for publishers who rely on search traffic?
As Google elevates forum content in AI answers, how will it prevent the spread of user-generated misinformation?
Will Google's preference for 'original sources' make it harder for consumers to find unbiased comparisons and product reviews?