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Posted by supermdguy 5 hours ago

Ask.com has closed(www.ask.com)
249 points | 128 commentspage 4
sgammon 4 hours ago|
End of an era
booleandilemma 4 hours ago||
I was so young when I first used it and remember being delighted by the idea of phrasing a search query as a question. Google came later.

Thank you for being a positive part of the web of my childhood.

GalaxyNova 3 hours ago||
truly the end of an era
xivzgrev 5 hours ago||
launched 26 years ahead of its time (LLMs)!
DANmode 4 hours ago|
Small language model(s).
UltraSane 5 hours ago||
I wonder what it was like working for them.
bsimpson 4 hours ago||
I only know them as a consumer, but IAC is truly one of the most scourge-of-the-earth companies. They're retreating to publish People Magazine now, but they monopolized concert tickets as Ticketmaster, and online dating as a rollup of every mainstream app in the last 20y. They also bought CollegeHumor and drove it into the ground/irrelevance.

They're a terrible company. It's no surprise that AskJeeves failed, but society is better for it.

IG_Semmelweiss 4 hours ago|||
i believe they also bought vimeo and livestream.com, and proceeded to miss the boat where Youtube took off.
bonzini 3 hours ago||
Vimeo was bought by Bending Spoons.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45197302

dchest 2 hours ago||
That was after IAC:

"Additional acquisitions in 2006 included ShoeBuy.com,[46] which the company later sold to Jet,[47] and Connected Ventures including CollegeHumor and Vimeo".

UltraSane 3 hours ago|||
It takes some real skill to destroy a site with as much talent as CollegeHumor had
paradoxyl 4 hours ago||
as I recall, they hired writers and freelancers who put together broad articles that got pointed too when you asked a question, instead of trying to answer questions individually... but my memory could be off, that was 20 years ago.
avazhi 4 hours ago|
Been using the net for 26 years and I never once used that website. Or maybe I used it once and it was so dog shit that I thought it was just a spam website.

Wonder how much they’ll get for the domain name though.