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Jun. 12, 2008 at 9:59am by Barry Schwartz
Zawodny Leaves Yahoo; Weiner To Go? And Linsley Departs Ask
Two big names have left Yahoo and Ask and speculation is that a third is to go. Below, more about he departures of Yahoo's Jeremy Zawdony, Ask's Peter Linsley, and Yahoo's Jeffrey Weiner, who is rumored to be leaving soon....
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Feb. 22, 2008 at 11:43am by Greg Sterling
Six Minutes With Former Ask CEO Jim Lanzone
AllThingD's Kara Swisher does a wide ranging video interview with former Ask CEO Jim Lanzone. Among other things, Swisher and Lanzone discuss "the future of search" (at only the very highest level, however)....
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Jan. 10, 2008 at 8:28am by Danny Sullivan
A Search Product CEO - Necessary To Win The Search Engine Game?
With Jim Lanzone being replaced as Ask.com's CEO, I thought it time to do a piece that's been banging about in my head. Do successful search companies have to have CEOs or top execs who "grew up" from the search product side? The jury is probably still out, but it's...
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Jan. 9, 2008 at 5:43pm by Barry Schwartz
Jim Safka To Replace Jim Lanzone As CEO Of Ask.com
IAC, Ask.com's parent company, has announced that Jim Lanzone, the CEO of Ask.com, will be replaced immediately by Jim Safka as the new CEO of Ask.com. Safka was previously the CEO of Match.com, IAC's online dating company, from 2004 to 2007. He will also retain his job at as CEO...
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Jul. 30, 2007 at 8:30am by Barry Schwartz
From eTours To Commanding Ask.com: Jim Lanzone's Story
I Fought the Law from the New York Times tells the story of how Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone abandoned pursuing a legal degree and learned his true passion was for internet companies. Lanzone attended Emory University's School of Law in Atlanta. He then worked for Justice Hugh P. Thompson at...
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May. 18, 2007 at 10:03am by Gord Hotchkiss
Ask.com’s Usability Architect: Exclusive Interview With Michael Ferguson
I love an underdog, especially a smart underdog. So I’m definitely rooting for Ask.com, because I think they’ve been an undervalued player in the search game. All the headlines have been focused on the big three and in the meantime, the team back at Ask.com has been quietly building...
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May. 13, 2007 at 6:30pm by Danny Sullivan
Wedding Congrats For Sergey & Gary
Last weekend was apparently a big weekend when it came to weddings and search. Both big names in search got hitched -- Gary Price and Sergey Brin. No, not to each other (not that there would be anything wrong with that, of course!). ResourceShelf editor and Ask.com search evangelist Gary...
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Apr. 26, 2007 at 2:45pm by Barry Schwartz
Portfolio.com Releases Executive Profiles Of Search Execs
Gary Price reports that Portfolio.com released a database of top executives profiles, and part of that list includes many of the top executives from our beloved search engines. Here are quick links to some of those profiles of interest:...
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Apr. 3, 2007 at 1:46pm by Danny Sullivan
Ask Ramps Up The Mystery Ads
First in the UK, Ask rolled out a guerilla marketing campaign aimed at sparking an "information revolution" to choose Ask over Google. Now a different yet still mysterious campaign is underway in the US by Ask. Valleywag reports about billboards on Highway 101 between San Francisco and San Jose saying...
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Mar. 7, 2007 at 9:15am by Barry Schwartz
Ask.com's CEO, Jim Lanzone, Calls Yahoo Paid Inclusion "Hypocritical"
In a comment left at the Stepforth blog, Jim Lanzone, Ask.com's CEO, has said that he considers paid inclusion a "dis-service". Jim explains that he finds it "hypocritical to charge for something we need to do anyway," i.e. crawl the web to find quality pages to present to the searcher....
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Feb. 20, 2007 at 2:40pm by Chris Sherman
Bloglines Creator Mark Fletcher Resurfaces At Startupping
Mark Fletcher, creator of Bloglines and other startup ventures, has just launched Startupping, a "community resource created for Internet entrepreneurs by Internet entrepreneurs." Fletcher left Ask.com last summer, after scaling Bloglines to handle the increased traffic the service attracted after he sold Bloglines to Ask in February 2005. Although the...
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Jan. 17, 2007 at 9:38am by Greg Sterling
Industry Moves: Peter Horan Goes To IAC
Peter Horan, who was the About.com CEO until its acquisition by the New York Times and then moved west to head up small business portal AllBusiness.com, has now been appointed CEO of IAC Media & Advertising. According to the company, "The CEOs of the Media & Advertising businesses will now...
