Archive for the 'Ask.com' Category
IAC’s Ask.com already uses Google’s text ads, but hitherto, it’s still used its own search algorithm, which it acquired when it bought Teoma. Teoma and Wisenut were once considered to be potential Google killers, Ask Jeeves bought Teoma; Looksmart bought WiseNut.
Anyway, Ask.com already uses Google’s text ads and when Google filed to go public, it […]
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Yesterday at 6pm EST, I was speaking with a successful entrepreneur who mentioned that the sale of his company ranked in the Top Internet deals of all time. I didn’t say anything, but had the gentlemen known that I was obsessed with deals and dealmaking, I had written a couple of posts on the […]
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The following is a perpetual-work-in-progress. Once you start to compile a list of mergers and acquisitions, you realize why it’s nearly impossible to have a complete list. We are quite confident that the following is a very good, comprehensive list of the largest, more notable deals… but it is not - and no list will […]
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Last year Barry Diller decided to get serious about search and plunked down $100M in an ill-fated advertising campaign for Ask.com. Today, Ask.com’s market share is lower than it was last year.
Let’s hope the company’s Chinese ambitions will fare better. Today the company said that it would spend a whopping $100M on its Chinese […]
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Editor’s note: I knew we were speaking too soon. One more deal to add to the list: Time Warner to buy Quigo. Added to the bottom of the list, under ad networks.
According to The Jordan Edmiston Group Inc.’s October 2007 Client Briefing report, the number of deals through the first three quarters of […]
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When DCLK got bought by Google, and then aQuantive got bought out by Microsoft, I said independent of what you or I say about the prices paid ($3.1B and $6B respectively), aQuantive was definitely worth twice as much as Doubleclick.
Of course, like it or not, this might have everything to do with IAC’s Ask.com being a […]
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Yesterday Joost co-founder Niklas Zennstrom made the announcement that Joost had 1M users. A lot of writers jumped on it to discern whether he meant 1M downloads, 1M users in all since launch or 1M concurrent users.
I have no clue which one he meant. Also, I wish Joost a lot of success, sure, WatchMojo.com is a content provider and all […]
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On the one hand I give credit to IAC’s Ask.com search engine for offering users AskEraser. On the other hand, I wonder, why bother?
Apart from the vocal minority consisting of tech writers and bloggers, who cares how much or how little search engines know and track your searches. I mean, unless you’re Al Qaeda, do […]
Tags: Ask.com, IAC, Search Wars|
Posted By: Ashkan Karbasfrooshan | Jul 19th
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Last week I wrote: Ask.com should stop spending $100M per year in ads and buy up new search companies, then once bloggers began to increasingly criticize its ad strategy (and thus put the company in the spotlight), I asked maybe I owed them an apology, after all, it encourages folks like yours truly and many others online […]
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Earlier this week I wrote: Ask.com, Stop Wasting $100M on Dumb Ads and Start Buying Search Technology.
If I were an IAC shareholder and could have a private chat with Barry Diller, that is probably what I would say to him.
Of course, I’m no longer an IAC shareholder, so in many ways I could care less […]
Tags: Ask.com, IAC, Internet & Web|
Posted By: Ashkan Karbasfrooshan | Jun 21st
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