‘Every great search must come to an end’: Ask ends, does it spell trouble for Yahoo, Bing?

After almost 30 years of its existence, Ask.com shut down its search service. The search engine, which believed in answering queries in a natural language way before generative AI was a thing, sort of a precursor to the modern-day AI-based search engines like Perplexity and Google AI Mode, has already discontinued its search service starting May 1. Although the exact reason wasn’t furnished by the holding company, Ask shared a parting statement on the website.