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Acquired byIAC
Price$1.85B
Date7/05
TermsCash

General Information

Websiteask.com
CategorySearch
Phone(510) 985-7400
Email
Employees475

Offices

United States
555 12th Street, Suite 500
NY, 94607, USA

People

CFO
EVP of Search Technology
President, CEO
Senior Vice President, Search Technology
Senior Vice President, Worldwide Communications
Senior Vice President, Operations
Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist
Senior Vice President, Research and Analytics
SVP and General Counsel
Vice President, Product Management
General Manager, Bloglines

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

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Ask.com

Ask.com is the #5 search engine behind Google, Yahoo, MSN, and 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. 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.

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Ask.com

Websiteask.com
StageLive
Tags search
Ask.com screenshot
Above: Ask.com Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 2/5/08

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  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. bloglines.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]
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