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What a coincidence, I went to their website maybe 3 days ago, for the first time in maybe 15-20 years, after watching this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKWTfHNPn6k

I actually felt bad for them and wondered if this type of video poking fun at them would become a trend.

I can't help but think this may have influenced them to shutter to avoid more damage to the URL/brand value.

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For many people ask.com will remain an annoying bloatware shit, that slipped through on the last installation of something else they installed, only causing them more work in removing it again. I don't think there was much more damage to be done. Probably, on the same level as spammers, for most people.

Until now I thought ask.com was only a scam site with no real existing service that users are using by choice.

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