Ask.com officially shut down on May 1 after nearly three decades, ending a search era that also saw AltaVista shut down and Lycos fade from prominence. The article recalls that Google, founded by two Stanford graduate students, did not invent the search engine and was not particularly early, but provided a better way of doing something millions of people were already doing, eventually becoming so dominant its name became a verb. It draws a parallel to AI, noting ChatGPT has become so closely associated with AI that the two terms can almost seem interchangeable, while asking whether the technology that first popularizes a revolution is necessarily the technology that ultimately dominates it. The article says it is not saying ChatGPT is about to disappear or meet the same fate as AltaVista, and credits OpenAI for introducing millions of people to generative AI, but notes Yahoo did not disappear the day Google arrived and that better technology simply begins to take more market share. It adds that legendary growth investor Louis Navellier is seeing something in AI.