“After 30 years of operation, Ask.com is no longer accepting queries.”
Ask Jeeves debuted in 1996 as the friendly butler who would answer your questions. By 2010 it was a content farm. By 2020 it was a redirect to ad networks owned by holding companies you have never heard of. Three decades later it dies a quiet, deserved death. The funny part is that the original pitch, ask a question and get an answer, is exactly what every chatbot now claims to do.