Ask Sponsored Listings is going to be added to Microsoft Office Live's adManager Beta search advertising service. This is reportedly the first time in five years that two of the top five search engines have joined together to offer search engine ads to advertisers. This will enable those using Microsoft's adManager to easily advertise on Live.com and MSN as well as on Ask.com. "We are very excited about the integration of Ask Sponsored Listings, as this provides more options for our small businesses to market their companies and attract new customers," said Baris Cetinok, director of produ [...]

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Ask.com has appointed Mark Stockford as the new senior vice president of operations today. Stockford will be responsible for the planning and operations of technology and engineering departments at Ask.com as well as all of Ask.com's data center operations. Stockford previously held employment at eBay, PayPal and Excite@Home. Chuck Geiger, executive cp of technology and engineering of Ask.com said, "Mark's diverse background and extensive experience in both the operational and technological aspects of networking engineering is a welcome addition to Ask.com." Here is the full release: OAK [...]

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Last night Ask.com's parent company, IAC, reported earnings. Bloomberg reports that IAC's profits dropped 98 percent in the fourth-quarter. The blame goes to the "entertainment coupon division." But Ask.com's media and ad segment division did pretty well, showing a growth of 46 percent in revenue from $109.5 million in Q4 2005 to $159.8 million in Q4 2006. [...]

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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 report to Mr. Horan, including Jim Lanzone of Ask.com, Briggs Ferguson of Citysearch, Richard Stalzer of IAC Advertising Solutions, and Scott Garell of IAC Consumer Applications and Portals." I've met and talked with Horan who's a very smart and personable guy. But beyond this his appointment suggests a k [...]

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Spotted via Marketing Pilgrim, this interview with Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone by Donna Bogatin at ZDNet on his vision and his role within both Ask and parent company IAC: "We are a world-class technology company and we are able to take ingredients from our sister companies, luckily in many cases premium ingredients because they are number 1 and 2 in their category, and we can remix those ingredients into something that is market leading in a particular vertical. That is exactly what we did with AskCity." Lanzone also talks about the new AskX site, other future additions in vertical search, and [...]

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