AskJeeves Shuts Down: The Original Natural Language Search Engine That Paved the Way for AI

AskJeeves, the pioneering search engine that allowed users to ask questions in plain English, has been shut down. Before Google's dominance, AskJeeves tried to answer everything with natural language queries, making it a precursor to modern AI assistants. The service, which once featured a butler named Jeeves, has now disappeared, marking the end of an era in internet history. Its legacy lives on in today's AI-powered answer engines like ChatGPT and Gemini.