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 ...

A message on the Ask.com website currently reads, “As IAC continues to sharpen its focus, we have made the decision to discontinue our search business, which includes Ask.com. After 25 years of ...

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 shuts down after 29 years, ending the search engine that pioneered conversational queries before AI chatbots made the approach mainstream.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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, a leading search engine and wholly-owned business of IAC NASDAQ: IACI, today announced an agreement to acquire Lexico Publishing Group LLC – the owner of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, 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 ...

We learned this week that more than 317 million computer viruses or other malicious programs were unleashed by hackers last year, according to the Internet security firm Symantec. That’s nearly a ...