Is ask.com UK freely accessible?

Everyone can freely access Ask.com UK, and anyone can type a question in the search field. If there is an answer for the question in the site’s database, the answer displays on the same page. Ask.com UK is the United Kingdom version of Ask.com, originally known as Ask Jeeves.

The site is a question-answering Web search engine. Garrett Gruener and David Warthen founded the website in 1995 in Berkeley, California. The name "Jeeves" in the site’s original name derives from the name of a valet, signifying the site’s ability to answer any questions a user asks. The site’s purpose is to enable people to ask questions in a natural language as well as through keyword searching.