Ask.com Closes Down: What Happened?
- Ask.com has shut down its operations.
- The site was known for its question-answering service.
- Users are reacting to the news on social media.
The Buzz Score
The Internet’s Verdict: 70% Hyped, 30% Skeptical
Forum Voices
Some users are sharing their thoughts on the closure of Ask.com.
Missed opportunity to name an LLM ‘Jeeves’ and finally live up to the vision.
For a long time ask.com had one of the only Google ad feeds allowing them to programatically request ads from Google to show on their search pages and for some reason instead of implementing it themselves they used a company I worked for to do it so for some time a lot of the ads on ask.com were actually google or yahoo ads running through a random ad server I wrote.
Others are remembering the site’s iconic butler, Jeeves.
“Jeeves’ spirit endures.” This goes hard. While he never married or had children, Jeeves is survived by his brother software butlers Jenkins and Alfred who have asked the public for privacy during this difficult time.
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