Comments on: IAC Earnings Drop But Ask.com Grows http://searchengineland.com/iac-earnings-drop-but-askcom-grows-10451 Search Engine Land: Must Read News About Search Marketing & Search Engines Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:49:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Doug Mehus http://searchengineland.com/iac-earnings-drop-but-askcom-grows-10451/comment-page-1#comment-985 Doug Mehus Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:46:56 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/beta/iac-earnings-drop-but-askcom-grows-10451.php#comment-985 Those are good numbers and show good growth potential for Ask.com, but one thing that concerns me vis a vis IAC Search & Media (which includes Ask.com) is their complete failure to relaunch their Excite and MyWay portals. Innovation on portal design and technology is happening at their Excite Europe and Asia units but nothing at at either of the above two portals since acquiring them three years ago in March. Moreover, the design for the Excite.com and MyWay.com web portals is the same as it was in 2001 when iWon Inc. acquired its assets out of the bankruptcy courts. - Doug Those are good numbers and show good growth potential for Ask.com, but one thing that concerns me vis a vis IAC Search & Media (which includes Ask.com) is their complete failure to relaunch their Excite and MyWay portals. Innovation on portal design and technology is happening at their Excite Europe and Asia units but nothing at at either of the above two portals since acquiring them three years ago in March.

Moreover, the design for the Excite.com and MyWay.com web portals is the same as it was in 2001 when iWon Inc. acquired its assets out of the bankruptcy courts.

- Doug

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