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    "Ask.com shutters, as its owner IAC “continues to sharpen its focus”; a dot-com era icon, Ask Jeeves launched in 1997, a year before Google"
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  "textContent": "Chase DiBenedetto / Mashable:\n**Ask.com shutters, as its owner IAC “continues to sharpen its focus”; a dot-com era icon, Ask Jeeves launched in 1997, a year before Google** — “As IAC continues to sharpen its focus, we have made the decision to discontinue our search business, which includes Ask.com.",
  "title": "Ask.com shutters, as its owner IAC \"continues to sharpen its focus\"; a dot-com era icon, Ask Jeeves launched in 1997, a year before Google (Chase DiBenedetto/Mashable)"
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