Ask > Ask: City
Oct. 31, 2007 at 10:35am by Greg Sterling
Ask Introduces New Maps & Directions For UK
The mapping upgrades and improvements are coming so fast now from Google, Microsoft, MapQuest, and Yahoo that it's difficult to keep track of all the changes. Luckily, the Ask Blog walks us through all the features of the new and improved Ask Maps UK, which includes multi-point routing, walking directions...
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Sep. 27, 2007 at 4:51pm by Greg Sterling
Coupons Coming To AskCity
Ask has partnered with IAC sister company EPI, publisher of "The Entertainment Book," which offers coupons and discounts to local businesses. Entertainment, which has had several false starts with online distribution, is planning to pump 75 percent of its coupons into AskCity. They may also eventually make their way to...
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Sep. 10, 2007 at 3:58pm by Barry Schwartz
Ask City Adds Embed Map Feature
First Google got embedded maps last month, and now Gary Price reports that Ask City has added an embed map feature that makes it easy to post a map or various local business directly on your web site as an image. For example, let's say I want to meet up...
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May. 2, 2007 at 9:05am by Greg Sterling
Citysearch Gets New Look And Video
Citysearch, one of the more venerable names in local search, has relaunched its site with an updated look and other "new and improved" features, including video. Video is currently available for New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles and has prominent placement at the top of the home page. It's...
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Mar. 8, 2007 at 9:02am by Barry Schwartz
Ask City's Shape Search Tool For Local Search Results
The Ask.com Blog announced a neat new feature that enables you to literally shape your own local search results. You can go to Ask City, locate a location, draw a circle or square in a certain location and then search specifically within that location. Below is a screen cast I...
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Mar. 1, 2007 at 8:37am by Greg Sterling
Citysearch Buys InsiderPages
VentureBeat is reporting that Citysearch/IAC is the mystery buyer of InsiderPages. A purchase price was not disclosed. The formal announcement will apparently come later today or early tomorrow [now confirmed, see below]. I would guess the purchase price wasn’t more than 2x what the investors put in (TechCrunch guesses $13...
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Dec. 20, 2006 at 8:39am by Greg Sterling
Diller Touting Ask And Centrality Of Local
Barry Diller keeps talking about Ask as the "glue" of his empire and more specifically about the importance of local. Ask and the new AskCity are thus in the hot seat. ClickZ has a piece today about the forthcoming introduction of financial and real estate data into AskCity....
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Dec. 4, 2006 at 3:42am by Greg Sterling
Ask City Launches Amid High Expectations
Barry Diller is putting a lot of pressure on Ask. He keeps talking about Ask's role in IAC's overall operation and local in particular. When he acquired Ask for almost $2 billion Diller immediately touted Ask's ability to knit together his disparate online empire into a more coherent whole. He...
