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Ask.com for Sale

Thursday, October 29th, 2009 at 11:27 pm

Ask could be sold.  Ask.com, formerly AskJeeves.com, was bought in March 2005 for $1.85bn in stock and has failed to gain significant ground on Google, Yahoo and Microsoft’s Bing search engine market.

“The big steps we’ve been out and after for the last several years in search have not been achieved and you’d have to say that the future is speculative.” Barry Diller said.

“We’ve been asked a lot whether we’re open to consolidating transactions in the area of search. The answer is yes and it’s unlikely that we would be the consolidator,” he added.

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