Tue 9 Feb 2010
Posted by Admin under Ask: Business Issues, Latest Info
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 5% year-over-year in revenue. On the income side of the balance sheet, IAC was up 47% from Q4 of 2008 to Q4 2009. Search, which includes Ask.com, was [...]
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Mon 8 Feb 2010
Posted by Admin under Ask: Business Issues, Ask: Promotions, Latest Info
Ask.com has ended its NASCAR sponsorship after one year. That’s according to The Sporting News, which reports that the sponsorship was actually fairly successful for Ask.com.
Jared Cluff, Ask’s senior VP of marketing, says the deal produced some measurable results in 2009:
“We saw double-digit increases in usage among NASCAR fans. With the fan cards that our [...]
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Thu 7 Jan 2010
Posted by Admin under Ask: Business Issues, Ask: Web Search, Google: Business Issues, Google: Partnerships, Latest Info
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 Google will get “first dibs” at a search deal.
Armstrong said this at Citi’s annual entertainment, media and telecommunications conference today. This was prompted by a question about possibly using Microsoft Bing [...]
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Wed 2 Dec 2009
Posted by Admin under Ask: Business Issues, Latest Info
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 interested in buying Ask.com and thinks consolidation with another search company is the way to go.
Diller, the CEO of IAC — Ask.com’s parent company — was clarifying comments made in [...]
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Wed 18 Nov 2009
Posted by Admin under Ask: Business Issues, Ask: General, Ask: Other, Ask: Web Search, Latest Info
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 long run, what do you do? If you’re Barry Diller and running the parent company of Ask, the search engine in question, you’re potentially looking at selling, with Microsoft as [...]
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Tue 27 Oct 2009
Posted by Admin under Ask: Business Issues, Ask: Web Search, Latest Info
Barry Diller, CEO of IAC — the parent company of Ask.com — said today that he’s willing to sell the struggling, fourth-place search engine. His comments came during a conference call with investors after IAC reported its 3rd quarter earnings.
“We’ve been asked a lot whether we’re open to consolidating transactions in the area of [...]
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Mon 31 Aug 2009
Posted by Admin under Ask: Business Issues, Ask: Employees, Latest Info, Microsoft: Business Issues, Microsoft: Employees
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 announced his new plans are to continue in search, but switch ships and work for Microsoft Bing.
Gulli said he will be “leading all the engineering development for UX and verticals [...]
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Wed 12 Aug 2009
Posted by Admin under Ask: Business Issues, Ask: Promotions, Latest Info, SEM Industry: Community, Yahoo: Business Issues
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 up on search. Where do I work now” and then the URL at the bottom. That is Ask.com being funny and then trying to pick [...]
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Wed 29 Jul 2009
Posted by Admin under Ask: Business Issues, Latest Info
Ask.com’s parent company reported second quarter earnings, which showed an overall decline in revenue of 4% for the overall company, but dipped 10% in the media and advertising category, the category Ask.com fits into.
IAC said revenue per query declined because of an “improved experience on Ask.com following its relaunch in October.” The [...]
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Tue 12 May 2009
Posted by Admin under Ask: Ask 3D, Ask: Business Issues, Ask: General, Latest Info, Top News
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 textbooks to students online. The decision to leave is apparently Safka’s, for personal reasons. Longtime Ask executive Scott Garell will take over as “President of Ask Networks.”
In its most recent [...]
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Wed 11 Feb 2009
Posted by Admin under Ask: Business Issues, Ask: General, Ask: Offices, Ask: Other, Latest Info
In the on again off again debate about whether Ask remains serious about search, a new blog post suggests that Ask is making a bid to improve its search index and efficiency, having completed a move to a new datacenter:
Our engineers were going to have to spend more time on improving efficiency, and less time [...]
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Wed 17 Dec 2008
Posted by Admin under Ask: Business Issues, Ask: General, Features: Analysis, Google: AdWords, Latest Info, Top News
Ah, Ask.com. Since I wrote their obituary in March, not much has got me thinking they’ll make a comeback. Sure, there was the gimmick of kind of bringing back Jeeves himself. But the spate of “hotels.ask.com” ads I see them running on Google makes me think they’re…
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