Ask: Business Issues
In His Own Words: Ask.com CEO Responds To Arbitrage Accusations
Ask’s Doug Leeds also says the site's not collecting first-party data or double-serving ads on...
Ask’s New App Search To Be Powered By Quixey
Quixey and Ask have entered into a deal in which apps from Quixey’s database, whether for mobile or the PC, will be integrated into...
Ask.com Celebrates 15th Birthday
Ask.com the social search/Q&A engine is 15 years old. Founded in 1996 as Ask Jeeves by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen the company has...
With So Much Money Is A Facebook Search Engine Inevitable?
The news broke yesterday that Facebook was getting a whopping $500 million from Goldman Sachs and existing investor Digital Sky Technologies at...
Barry Diller No Longer CEO Of IAC, Ask.com
Reuters reports Barry Diller, the CEO of IAC/InterActiveCorp, which bought Ask years back, is no longer the CEO of the company. Barry Diller...
Ask.com To Focus On Q&A Search, End Web Crawling
Talk about getting back to your roots. Ask.com, which originally used humans to find answers to questions, is going further back to its origins...
Saturday Night Live: Yahoo & AOL Merger Like Two Seniors Dating At A Nursing Home
A couple weeks ago, there were some rumors that AOL may buy Yahoo. This past week’s Saturday Night Live’s news brief skit with John...
IAC Boss Barry Diller Disses Ask, Says It Has “No Value”
Like a father disowning his own child IAC’s Barry Diller seems to have all but written off the search engine he paid almost two billion...
Diller: Ask.com Was The Little Search Engine That Couldn’t
At one time, IAC’s CEO Barry Diller thought his Ask.com search engine could take on Google. But Diller effectively threw in the towel...
IAC Q4 Earnings: Search Growth 3% But Takes $1 Billion Loss On Ask.com
IAC, the parent company of Ask.com, reported their fourth quarter earnings today and overall, it was a good quarter of revenue for IAC, being up...
Ask.com Puts Its NASCAR Sponsorship Back In Garage
Ask.com has ended its NASCAR sponsorship after one year. That’s according to The Sporting News, which reports that the sponsorship was...
Armstrong: Google Gets “First Dibs” At AOL Search Deal
AOL’s CEO: Google To Get 1st Shot At New Search Deal from the Wall Street Journal reports AOL’s CEO, Tim Armstrong saying that...
IAC’s Diller Decides Not To Sell Ask.com
The mercurial Barry Diller, CEO of IAC, decided apparently that he didn’t want to sell Ask. During the Q3 earnings call Reuters reported...
Diller Backs Off Ask.com Sale, Talks Consolidation Instead
In what might just be a bit of posturing, Barry Diller told the Reuters Global Media Summit in New York that he’s turned away companies...
Ask Making A Bigger Bet On “Social Search” Or Q&A
If you’re the number four search engine in a market that is looking like it’s going to be about two (maybe three) players in the...
Diller Says He’s Willing To Sell Ask.com
Barry Diller, CEO of IAC — the parent company of Ask.com — said today that he’s willing to sell the struggling, fourth-place...
Gulli Leaves Ask.com For Microsoft Bing, Finally Has “Resources”
Ten days ago, we reported that Antonio Gulli left Ask.com after 4 years heading up their technology team in the European R&D center. Gulli...
Ask.com Mocks Yahoo With Employee Poaching Sign
I was walking through the expo hall, which I rarely do, and I spotted at the Ask.com booth this sign. You read that? “My company just gave...
Ask.com’s IAC Revenue Drops 10%, Revenue Per Query Down
Ask.com’s parent company reported second quarter earnings, which showed an overall decline in revenue of 4% for the overall company, but...
Ask CEO Safka to Depart
According to the Wall Street Journal, Ask.com CEO Jim Safka is leaving the company. He will become the head of Chegg, Inc., which rents...
