Tag archive: ask.com

According to new figures released by market metrics firm Comscore, Microsoft's Bing search engine accounted for 14.1 percent of the U.S. Internet search market in April 2011, an increase of 0.2 percent compared to March 2011. Although the gain may not seem very significant compared to Google's share of the U.S. search market for the month—Comscore says that totaled 65.4 percent—it's interesting for two reasons. One… Read More

It's an end of an era for one of the remaining search giants of the late 90′s. Ask.com According to Bloomberg, IAC  is shutting down the search engine which is purchased in 2005 for $1.85 billion. Chairman Barry Diller has been quoted saying that, “We’ve realized in the last few years you can’t compete head on with Google.” Ask.com was one of the major players in the late 90′s, along with other search engines that have gone by… Read More

Internet search engine Ask.com has a storied history, launching back in the mid-1990s as Ask Jeeves, competing alongside Yahoo, Google, and AltaVista for mindshare in the nascent Internet search business—and sporting s distinctive character with Jeeves, P.D. Wodehouse's fictional valet. Back in 2005, AskJeeves was bought by Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp for a cool $1.85 billion—and although IAC has pumped resources… Read More

Search engine ask.com has introduced Ask Deals, a new aggregation service that combs through a proprietary database of over 1 million offers and discounts from local and national businesses and presents relevant online shopping deals right in search results via a new “Deal$” tab. The idea is to eliminate the tedium of searching the Internet for the best online shopping deals this holiday season; users can also share coupons and deals… Read More