By Reshma Kumar at October 05, 2008 6 Comments
The wife of Ask.com founder, David Warthen, is facing tax evasion charges on money she allegedly made while working as a prostitute. The charges against Cristina Schultz, 35, are related to $25,424 in taxes she failed to pay from the more than $133,000 she earned as a prostitute in 2003. David Warthen, whom she married in 2004, claims the money was theirs and he gifted it to her. Cristina is a 2001 grad of Stanford Law School and is said to have repaid her student loans working as a professional escort.
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By Reshma Kumar at July 02, 2008 0 Comments
Ask.com has migrated off of their mapping platform and onto Microsoft’s Virtual Earth platform. Ask follows suit of many portal sites letting Microsoft make the heavy investments in infrastructure, imagery, photography acquisition, data updates, etc hence allowing them to focus on developing applications that benefit end users. Other portals incorporating Microsoft’s Virtual Earth include YellowPages.com, Superpages.com, and WhitePages.com among many.
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Labels: Ask.com, Maps, Microsoft
By Daya Baran at June 23, 2008 0 Comments
Ask.com’s parent IAC is the latest to join the already crowded ad network space. The company announced that it is planning to build an in-house ad network.
The mini-network pools inventory from IAC’s collection of sites. Ads can be targeted and sold across them to reach specific audience segments.
IAC hopes to differentiate itself from other content-cum-ad-networks by enabling advertisers to sell ads against user activities. For instance, a frequent Evite or Ticketmaster user may be served ads based on parties thrown or event tickets purchased.
One analyst claims that if the ad network proves popular, it More»
Labels: ad networks, Ask.com
By Daya Baran at May 15, 2008 0 Comments
Ask.com, plans to acquire Lexico, which owns Dictionary.com, as well as Thesaurus.com and Reference.com. Ask.com’s chief executive, Jim Safka, declined to disclose terms of the deal but it is estimated to be about $100 million said a person with knowledge of the transaction. He also said the company will drop its focus on women and focus on being a general purpose search engine.
Dictionary.com had about 15 million visitors in March and is growing rapidly. It sells ads on its site, and Mr. Safka said it is profitable, though he won’t discuss any actual More»
Labels: answers.com, Ask.com, dictionary.com
By Reshma Kumar at February 07, 2008 0 Comments
How did the top four search engines perform in the first 4 weeks of the year? Data from Hitwise shows that Google accounted for 65.98% of all US searches. Yahoo followed with 20.94%, MSN Live Search at 6.9%, and Ask trailing at 4.21% which reflects an increase of 19% YOY.
“Search engines remain the primary way internet users navigate to key industry categories” according to Hitwise. Interesting growth trend is that travel, news and media, entertainment, business and finance, and sports all underwent significant increases in the share of traffic coming from search engines, from More»
Labels: Ask.com, Microsoft, search engine, Yahoo
By Reshma Kumar at January 22, 2008 0 Comments
Ask.com is leveraging the core capability of what the mobile phone does best i.e. transit speech, to provide voice-activated directions. Ask.com Mobile announced that they’ve added a new option to their Directions service called Click to Speak. The feature lets Ask.com Mobile users verbally enter addresses by speaking instead of keying them in. Users can activate a voice activated directions service with a click and within seconds receive a text message with a link to directions.
Here’s a how-to video but basically, from your mobile device, you navigate to www.ask.com or http://m.ask.com, click More»
Labels: Ask.com, Mobile Search, mobile web
By Reshma Kumar at December 17, 2007 0 Comments
Google is expected to start adding blogs in the next week or so to its universal search results, an initiative which was launched back in May. According to Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products & User Experience, queries will return links to blogs alongside the images, news, books, local maps and video. This is indicative of the growing popularity and effectiveness of blogs which at last count were being created at 100,00 per day. The other big three search engines - Yahoo, Live Search, and Ask - currently include blogs as part of their search results in some form or More»
Labels: Ask.com, google, Microsoft, Yahoo, YHOO
By Reshma Kumar at December 08, 2007 0 Comments
In case anyone missed it, Ask.com also released their “Top Searches for 2007″. Topping the list for the second year in a row was ‘MySpace’, followed by Dictionary, and ironically Google. Top presidential candidate searches were Barack Obama followed by Hillary Clinton. I am not a sports buff but for those of you who are, the top sports team searches were the Red Sox and Cowboys. Top TV show searches were Hannah Montana and Family Guy. And, this is a different one, the “Top Celebrity Search of Pregnant Stars” (not just of celebrities :)) was Jennifer Lopez and Salma Hayek. More»
Labels: Ask.com, Search
By Daya Baran at October 23, 2007 10 Comments
comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace for September 2007. Google remained the top search property with more than 5.3 billion core searches conducted, representing a 57% share of the search market, followed by Yahoo! 23.7%, Microsoft 10.3%, Ask.com 4.7% and Time Warner Network 4.3 %.
comScore qSearch 2.0 Report - Total U.S. Home/Work/University Location
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Labels: Ask.com, Craigslist, MySpace, Yahoo
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