ask.com --- ask jeeves sold for $1.85 billion

[mike031]

InterActiveCorp just announced today that they will acquire the ask jeeves search engine'

http://www.iac.com/index/news/press/IAC/show_pr?objId=7278

 

[dvestors]

holy s#$t that's a lot of money..

 

[insomnia]

Wow, these guys own a lot of premium business / names:

http://www.iac.com/businesses.html

 

[lukeeales]

Wow. They must be one of the largest network of sites in the world.

 

[Prosperous]

InterActiveCorp just announced today that they will acquire the ask jeeves search engine'
http://www.iac.com/index/news/press/IAC/show_pr?objId=7278

Wow, very inspiring!

 

[Stinos]

that's a lot of money ....

 

[Steen]

Who knows why.
The site is horrible. There must be something behind the scenes.
No way AJ is worth $1b+

 

[SeatBeltPads.com]

yeah IAC made me a very low $xxx,xxx offer for a business I'm developing - they have essentially asked me to keep developing and they will keep my venture on their radar. They are very straight forward when they want somenthing

 

[peekaboo]

yeah IAC made me a very low $xxx,xxx offer for a business I'm developing - they have essentially asked me to keep developing and they will keep my venture on their radar. They are very straight forward when they want somenthing

so what r u developing? u don't have 2 go into details if u don't want 2, but perhaps u can say something broadly?

 

[Dr. Domaining]

I personally feel that Ask Jeeves is a great search engine and I am not suprised it sold for that much money.

 

[dmyre]

I used to use aj.com exclusively before I found Google.
Although good, I don't feel they compare to Google.

 

[Dr. Domaining]

Ask Jeeves is generally the second search engine I use if I can't find what I am looking for on Google. I have found many things that I wasn't able to find on Google on Ask Jeeves.

 

[VisualDigits]

I think AskJeeves is horrible as well, but the domain is worth alot.

 

[darrenl]

I like their site.

 

[c39b7]

hah. wow that's an incredible amount of money.

Do you think that I might squeeze a bit more from them
through a sale of my domain?

interact.net

stupid ".net"

I'm sure that with their influences and power they could
easily develop it into a moneymaking machine.