Ask.com’s latest turnaround strategy, in the wake of layoffs and reports of selloffs by parent IAC (NSDQ: IACI), has seen the site return to… Read More »
Ask.com Searches For A More Human Touch With Latest Relaunch
By David Kaplan
Jul. 27, 2010, 9:01am
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IAC’s search site Ask.com has tried numerous incarnations to capture some of the traffic and advertising gold possessed by Google (NSDQ: GOO… Read More »
In case you didn’t get it the first few times, yes, IAC (NSDQ: IACI) Chairman and CEO Barry Diller still believes the search market will con… Read More »
Another profitable quarter for IAC (NSDQ: IACI) (that’s two in a row) aided by $35 million in gains from the sale OpenTable shares and Match… Read More »
Jim Safka is stepping down as CEO of Ask.com, the WSJ reports, and we have confirmed. Safka took the reins last January, replacing Jim Lanzo… Read More »
Ask.com Searches For Some Attention
By Joseph Tartakoff
Apr. 3, 2009, 11:21pm
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Poor Ask.com. Nobody seems to have noticed that the IAC-owned search engine already had several of the features that its bigger competitors… Read More »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) users are young, “trendy” members of the “digerati”, and Ask.com should never have tried to lure them away, its European… Read More »
Yet another update from search engine Ask.com just a year and a half after its last overhaul. It’s going live today in the US with its “next… Read More »
A busy 24 hours at IAC (NSDQ: IACI) … we wrote earlier about the pending soft launch of Tina Brown’s The Daily Beast and now yet another u… Read More »
– AOL: AOL’s (NYSE: TWX) Platform-A advertising Hydra, which recently appointed Brendon Condon as London-based international head, has made… Read More »
Ask Expands Search Reach Through Photobucket Deal
By Joseph Weisenthal
Jul. 10, 2008, 11:37pm
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As IAC (NSDQ: IACI) attempts to buildup Ask.com, it’s made a point of de-emphasizing syndicated search in favor of higher-yield organic sear… Read More »
Losing its independence on Independence Day, Lexico is now part of the Ask.com family, as IAC’s (NSDQ: IACI) portal completes its purported… Read More »
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Turns out Ask.com has the answers for Lexico Publishing, the owner of Dictionary.com which earlier agreed to be acquired by Answers.com (NSD… Read More »
By Rafat Ali
Mar. 7, 2008, 4:43am
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Strange are the motivations of Ask: First it clearly states that it will now focus on its core audience of married women, and now it says th… Read More »
IAC-owned search engine Ask.com is planning to lay off 40 workers or 8 percent of its total workforce, CEO Jim Safka tells Reuters. That’s b… Read More »
A source has confirmed to us a coming shakeup at IAC-owned Ask.com that includes about 100 layoffs in the April time frame. SAI reported thi… Read More »
By Rafat Ali
Feb. 23, 2008, 12:39am
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Couple of short video interviews for a more relaxed Friday (RSS readers will have to click through): 1) From Folio: an interview with Mered… Read More »
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