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Ask.com (originally known as Ask Jeeves) is a question answering–focused e-business founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California. The original software was implemented by Gary Chevsky, from his own design. Warthen, Chevsky, Justin Grant, and others built the early AskJeeves.com website around that core engine.
Dec 16, 2022 · As a result, Ask Jeeves was back on the acquisition train, acquiring Interactive Search Holdings Inc. for $343 million in cash and stock in March 2004. The acquisition granted it ownership of other web search and portal brands such as My Way, My Search, My Web Search, Excite, iWon, and MaxOnline.
ASKfm has just been acquired by Ask.com, the leading brand for online questions and answers and an operating business of IAC (NASDAQ: IACI). More Press Releases #Back2ASKfm! 1 000 000 millennials in quarantine returned to their Ask.fm accounts.
Mar 20, 2024 · In 2005, Ask Jeeves was acquired by InterActive Corp. (IAC), led by Barry Diller, with the aim of competing with Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Ask Jeeves underwent a business model pivot, making acquisitions and investing in advertising to increase search engine traffic.
Nov 10, 2010 · The retreat is a major blow for Barry Diller, the chief executive of the e-commerce company IAC/InterActiveCorp, which had paid $1.85 billion in 2005 for Ask.com and then invested heavily to...
Aug 14, 2014 · The controversial social network Ask.fm has been bought by the owners of Tinder and Ask.com for an undisclosed fee. The site, where members answer questions posed by others, has been linked...
May 29, 2014 · Ask.fm is set up by brothers Ilja and Mark Terebin as a rival to question and answer based social network Formspring.
