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Acquired byIAC
Price$1.85B
Date7/05
TermsCash

General Information

Websiteask.com
Blogblog.ask.com
Twitter@askdotcom
CategorySearch
Phone(510) 985-7400
Email
Employees475
Founded1995
DescriptionEmpowering People with Answers

Offices

Oakland, USA
555 12th Street, Suite 500
Oakland, CA, 94607
USA

People

CEO
Chief Product & Technology Officer
Chief Product & Technology Officer
VP, Communications
EVP, Business Operations
SVP, Financial Planning & Analysis
Sr. Director Product Management

Former People

CFO
EVP of Technology and Engineering
EVP of Search Technology
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Acquisitions

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

Funding

Competitors

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Ask.com

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.

Milestones

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Ask Around, Ask.com’s location-based group chat app

Added: 3/28/11

Screenshots

Ask.com screenshot
Above: Ask.com Q&A Beta_2010
Uploaded: 8/31/10
Ask.com screenshot
Above: Ask.com Q&A Beta_2010(2)
Uploaded: 8/31/10

Products

Ask.com Q&A

Websiteask.com
Blogblog.ask.com
StageLive
Tags search
Ask.com screenshot
Above: Ask.com Q&A Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 2/5/08

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Ask

Sources

  1. Citation Needed [add]
  2. IAC’s Ask.com Acquires Domain Name Monetizer Sendori (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  3. Ask.com Picks Up Dictionary.com After It Was Jilted By Answers.com (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
  4. Ask Jeeves Acquires Bloglines (crn.com) [edit]
  5. Ask Jeeves Acquires Teoma (searchenginewatch.com) [edit]
  6. Ask Jeeves Asks Direct Hit (searchenginewatch.com) [edit]
  7. rodagroup.com [edit]
  8. internetnews.com [edit]
  9. Techmeme (bing.com) [edit]
  10. The Sauce Report (bing.com) [edit]
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