{"id":1006673,"date":"2026-05-04T10:32:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T05:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006673"},"modified":"2026-05-04T11:15:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T05:45:33","slug":"every-great-search-must-come-to-an-end-ask-ends-does-it-spell-trouble-for-yahoo-bing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/04\/every-great-search-must-come-to-an-end-ask-ends-does-it-spell-trouble-for-yahoo-bing\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Every great search must come to an end\u2019: Ask ends, does it spell trouble for Yahoo, Bing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019t furnished by the holding company, Ask shared a parting statement on the website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019t furnished by the holding company, Ask shared a parting statement on the website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006723,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006673\/revisions\/1006723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}