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Ask.com finalizes Dictionary.com purchase

by Robert Nelson on Jul 4, 2008 at 01:46 PM

With the deal closed on the Dictionary.com purchase, Ask.com has now become, at least according to comScore, the ninth-largest web property. The all-cash deal originally began back in mid-May and had Ask.com purchasing Lexico Publishing Group LLC. The web properties that were included were Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com. Ask.com is… Continue Reading »

Ask.com intro’s news page

by Robert Nelson on Feb 9, 2008 at 11:46 PM

Ask has launched a news page, being called “Big News” they will aggregate and display top news stories from around the web. The stories will be pulled from a variety of sites both big and small, ranging everywhere from the small blog up to The New York Times. They even… Continue Reading »

Ask.com gets more personal with custom skins

by Robert Nelson on Jan 24, 2008 at 12:36 PM

Ask has just added the ability to skin the search page with personally uploaded images. Skins were first introduced last year as part of the Ask3D package, however users were able to skin the search page only with a standard set of images. According to Ask “millions-of-people” have been “skinning… Continue Reading »

Ask.com announces voice activated directions for your mobile phone

by Robert Nelson on Jan 4, 2008 at 09:13 AM

Ask has released a mobile directions service called Click To Speak. This will allow users to enter an address using your voice instead of typing it out. Simply speak the city and state, then the street address for both your destination and also your starting point. To use the new… Continue Reading »

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