Ask.com Gets Literate
Posted by Bezhou Feng on 06 July 2008 - 14:32 · 10 comments & 4740 views
Search engine Ask.com, a unit of IAC/InterActiveCorp, has announced that it has closed an all-cash deal to acquire Lexico Publishing Group LLC, the owner of popular reference sites Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com. The company said the deal expands its monthly audience by around 15 million users to 145 million, an increase of 11%, making Ask.com the ninth-largest Web property globally. The move comes as IAC announced plans to spin off four of its largest businesses and focus on Web media and advertising in coming months. Terms of the merger were not disclosed.

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Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by thealexweb on 06 Jul 2008 - 15:41
At least Ask is trying to get back on its feet.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by Andrey on 06 Jul 2008 - 16:08
they have a looooong way to go. Currently they're the last search engine with only 2% marketshare. It's funny how they say "ninth largest Web property" But the interesting fact is that there are 9 web properties alltogether! Are they really proud to be in the last place?

Who cares about Ask.com anyway? Altough they do try hard at adverising their stupid news all over various websites.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by rev3nant on 06 Jul 2008 - 18:20
Who cares? That's the second time I've heard of Ask.com.
Quote this comment #3.1 Posted by HalcyonX12 on 06 Jul 2008 - 21:25
Ask.com lets you opt-out of their data collection when you make a search, and lets you make totally anonymous searches. It would be nice if the other search engines were as privacy-conscious. Especially if you are living in some censored/oppressed society.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by xanadu1979 on 06 Jul 2008 - 22:09
I thought ask.com was going to revamp itself as a female-oriented search engine. Does anyone know if that's still the plan?

Their site has a lot of nice features and design elements. But the results just plain don't come anywhere near Google's.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by RPDL on 06 Jul 2008 - 22:20
I don't think this purchase will make a difference from our perspective. I mean, at dictionary.com and thesaurus.com you just type in words and read related pages. I don't see how they cant change anything for better or for worse.
(3 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #6 Posted by mayamaniac on 07 Jul 2008 - 00:11
Bring back jeeves!
Quote this comment #6.1 Posted by em_te on 07 Jul 2008 - 04:50
Without Jeeves, Ask has been going downhill ever since. It's like what Steve Jobs is to Apple.
Quote this comment #6.2 Posted by MtDewCodeRedFreak on 07 Jul 2008 - 07:24
(em_te said @ #6.1)
Without Jeeves, Ask has been going downhill ever since. It's like what Steve Jobs is to Apple.


I agree. I miss the ol' butler lol.
Quote this comment #6.3 Posted by Guol on 07 Jul 2008 - 10:15
(MtDewCodeRedFreak said @ #6.2)
(em_te said @ #6.1)
Without Jeeves, Ask has been going downhill ever since. It's like what Steve Jobs is to Apple.


I agree. I miss the ol' butler lol.


Yeh Ask Jeeves was awesome
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