InterActiveCorp is about to unload a local information and entertainment service, apparently named “Ask City,” and it’s about time.
IAC is an Internet media conglomerate headed by Barry Diller, and it plans to introduce the local site next week, combining Web search, city guides, maps and event listings and tickets, a move that appears to finally combine the company’s assets in a logical way.The new Web-based city guides, scheduled to start Dec. 4, will be followed later in December by a redesign of the Ask.com search service, according to the NYT. This is an obvious thing to do (the company owns Ask.com, CitySearch, Evite and TicketMaster, among others), and we hope it is good. Lots of companies have been biting off little pieces of this strategy (Yelp, Smalltown, JudysBook, BackFence to name a few) but none of them have the same breadth in this area as IAC.
Tags: ask-city, co:Backfence, co:Judysbook, co:Redback-networks, co:Smalltown, co:Zoho, people:Keith-Teare3 Comments
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ann conaway said:
Trying and trying to find how to add google earth–I have an imac.
I see you have moved on–just wondering if you could still help me. -
Search Engines WEB said:
According to HitWise - Ask.com, as of last month for the first time, has moved past AOL to capture the 4th Spot after the ‘big three’ (GYM) in Search usage popularity.
It appears that Ask is making a effort to be more Google-like - while AOL is making to be more web2.0 portal-like.
It is interesting to see how long ASK can flourish without being acquired by one of the big three.
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TD said:
SEW,
I hope that you realize that Ask.com was already acquired by IAC a few years ago. Where have you been?
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