Before Ask.com, there was AskJeeves. AskJeeves was special because it allowed searches to be phrased in the form of a question, rather than entering keywords like most search engines.
AskJeeves fired Jeeves and is now simply Ask.com.
This screenshot comes from April 1997.
Credit: The Wayback Machine
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looksmart? I'm sure there's a guy in parliament who made his money out of it before the dotcom crash