| Acquired by | IAC |
| Price | $1.85B |
| Date | 7/05 |
| Terms | Cash |
| Website | ask.com |
| Blog | blog.ask.com |
| @askdotcom | |
| Category | Search |
| Phone | (510) 985-7400 |
| Employees | 475 |
| Founded | 1995 |
| Description | Empowering People with Answers |
| Total | $639M |
| Sendori, 1/09 | $25M |
| Lexico Publishing Group, 5/08 | $100M |
| Bloglines, 2/05 | $10M |
| Teoma Technologies, 9/01 | $4M |
| Direct Hit, 2/00 | $500M |
| Total | $25M |
| Seed, 1/96 Roda Group | |
| Series A, 3/99 Highland Capital Partners Institutional Venture Partners | $25M |
Ask.com is the #4 search engine behind Google, Yahoo and Bing and ahead of AOL. Ask.com was originally known as AskJeeves and specialized in natural language search. In Sept 2001, the company acquired Teoma Technologies, and began shifting Ask’s algorithms away from natural language search.
In July 2010, Ask.com returned to its Q&A roots with the beta launch of its question and answer (Q&A) offering that uses a hybrid of search technology and human response to address the complex or opinion-based questions for which no published answer exists on the web. The company believes the combination of search and social (technology + community) is the necessary foundation for building a widespread and comprehensive Q&A service.
Ask.com’s ads are served by Google. The revenue they generate for Google accounts for 10 percent of Google’s revenue from partners.
AskJeeves was acquired by IAC in March 2005 for $1.85 Billion.
Ask Around, Ask.com’s location-based group chat app
Added: 3/28/11
| Website | ask.com |
| Blog | blog.ask.com |
| Stage | Live |
| Tags | search |
