No.1 Link Building &
SEO Firm in US & UK

Some comments made by IAC’s Diller at the Q3 conference call sounded to listeners as though he would be open to a sale of the Ask.com holdings.  According to Reuters: “We’ve been asked a lot whether we’re open to consolidating transactions in the area of search. The answer is yes,” Diller said. “And, it is [...]

Finding answers to your questions or problems has recently become the main thrust of search. The newest search engines are focusing on this (Wolfram Alpha, and even Bing) and Ask.com is at the forefront of the ‘search by question’ movement. They have the ultimate goal of providing answers quickly to searchers, sine according to comScore, [...]

Ask.com parent IAC is going vertical. This is in answer to a 2 million net loss for 2008($1.08 loss per share). For Q4 2008, IAC reported $227.4 million in net income, or $1.57 per share. They also had several write-downs for underperforming assets, but not even counting these, their adjusted net income came in at [...]

IAC is splitting off its various business arms to form five distinct companies. Ask.com, HSN, Inc, Ticketmaster, LendingTree.com, Inc and Interval Leisure Group, Inc will become independent of each other as of August 21, and ‘when issued’ trading began today. IAC posted a 7% growth for the second quarter of 2008, beating expectations (unlike other, [...]