Ask.com, formerly known as Ask Jeeves, has just announced that it has all but given up the search business.

The internet company, one of the earliest search engines, will close two offices and cut engineering jobs, specifically those involved in developing algorithms for web search.

Ask.com president Doug Leeds told Bloomberg that Google was the reason for his company quitting search.

“It’s become this huge juggernaut of a company that we really thought we could compete against by innovating,” Leeds was quoted as saying.

Google commands 65% of all US online searches while Ask.com managed only a paltry 2%, according to Nielsen statistics.

For now, Ask.com will continue to work on its Q&A business, which Leeds maintains still uses a “great deal of technology investment and technical innovation, much of which is search-related”, he wrote on the company’s blog.

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