What happened to Ask.com’s search engine? It was put out to pasture Tuesday by the company that says it’s giving up on trying to compete with Google. Ask.com says its getting out of the search engine ...

Ask.com hopes it’s found the answer to increasing its market share — and no, the plan doesn’t involve a butler named Jeeves. The fourth-place search engine has just announced a new site that focuses ...

Ask.com, owned by IAC/InteractiveCorp, said Thursday it acquired Ask.fm, a question and answer (Q&A) social network, signaling another move to integrate search and social. Terms of the deal were not ...

Ask.com, the veteran search engine formerly known as Ask Jeeves that once stood among the most visited destinations on the early internet, has officially shut down its operations, closing the chapter ...

In fact, they’re actually doing pretty well these days. “We certainly are the underdog. We’re certainly living in a Google world,” Ask.com Chief Executive Jim Lanzone said. “But Ask is anything but ...

Ask.com is no more: The onetime Burger King to Google's McDonalds has shuttered its search engine after nearly 30 years⁠—though the exact count seems to depend on who you ask⁠—with its website now ...

Ask.com, originally founded as the Y2K stalwart Ask Jeeves, is officially dead. "As IAC continues to sharpen its focus, we have made the decision to discontinue our search business, which includes Ask ...

Ask.com is making its presence felt in the search engine market by introducing two new features of its search engine recently. News.com is reporting that Ask.com is now parsing more data and ...

Ask.com today introduced a new version of its search engine that is both a return to the company's semantic roots and a move to become more of a one-stop shop for not just search results, but the ...

A zealous band of pro-regulation privacy groups made a valiant effort a few days ago to convince the Feds to forcibly pull the plug on a new feature on the Ask.com ...

Ask.com isn't the most popular search engine online—while getting solid numbers on such things is both difficult and expensive, the search engine metrics firms say that Ask.com gets anywhere from 1.5 ...

The butler is dead, the name has been tweaked, but executives at Ask.com would like to remind the world that they are still very much in business. In fact, they're actually doing pretty well these ...