WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — After three decades, he has tendered his resignation.
Ask Jeeves, an early giant in the search engine game that later became Ask.com, is no more. It now joins once-favored search engines like Lycos and AltaVista in the graveyard of Web 1.0 of the 1990s and early 2000s.
Ask was known for its iconic Jeeves character, based on the late novelist P.G. Wodehouse’s character of the same name. The search engine stood out from the others by allowing users to ask it direct questions, as seen in this commercial.
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IAC, the company that purchased Ask.com in 2005, announced the end Friday in a statement on the website, thanking the website’s team over its nearly three decades of operations, along with its users…