{"id":51842,"date":"2026-05-08T16:01:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T20:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=51842"},"modified":"2026-06-23T11:18:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:18:06","slug":"ask-jeeves-shuts-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/08\/ask-jeeves-shuts-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask Jeeves Shuts Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ask.com\/\">Ask.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.ask.com\/\">\n<p>As IAC continues to sharpen its focus, we have made the decision to discontinue our search business, which includes Ask.com. After 30 years of answering the world&rsquo;s questions, Ask.com officially closed on May 1, 2026.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ClassicII_MrMac\/status\/2051385159925030961\">Mr. Macintosh<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ClassicII_MrMac\/status\/2051385159925030961\">\n<p>Courtesy of the Internet archive, the image above is from the 1996 beta. This is what Ask Jeeves looked like after the public launch on June 1, 1997.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask.com: As IAC continues to sharpen its focus, we have made the decision to discontinue our search business, which includes Ask.com. After 30 years of answering the world&rsquo;s questions, Ask.com officially closed on May 1, 2026. Mr. Macintosh: Courtesy of the Internet archive, the image above is from the 1996 beta. This is what Ask [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-05-08T20:01:39Z","apple_news_api_id":"ec7eaca1-d2d1-4c6a-ae03-b3b1b51cc1d4","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-06-23T15:18:09Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A7H6sodLRTGquA7OxtRzB1A","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2914,343,1451,96],"class_list":["post-51842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ask-jeeves","tag-search","tag-sunset","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51842"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52365,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51842\/revisions\/52365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}