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Google plans to expand its finance Web site by adding more historical data and company filings as it tries to gain ground on more-popular services from Yahoo and AOL. The company will also seek to improve its 2-year-old finance site by offering real-time stock prices from the New York Stock Exchange on a permanent basis after a four-month pilot started this week, said R.J. Pittman, director of product management. Google's finance pages had 2.07 million U.S. visitors last month, ranking 13th on researcher ComScore's list of top financial sites. The company plans to use its search technology to help users find data more efficiently, rather than adding editorial content to lure more users, Pittman said. Adding features such as up-to-the-minute stock quotes will help Google lure more visitors that may then visit the company's other sites, sai
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via SiliconValley.com @ 8:38 27th Jun
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In December 2007, Microsoft acquired MultiMap, which offers features that are focused on the UK, and created quite quite a stir when it accidentally forced UK users to use it over Live Maps. In mid-April, Ask UK made a surprising move when it switched away from its mapping service and decided to start using Multimap. Ask UK decided that MultiMap was better than Live Maps and Ask Maps, so it rolled out the service on its website.
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via ArsTechnica @ 16:27 2nd Jul
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As of this writing, there are five top Internet search engines: Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, and Ask.com, and while Google and Yahoo! get a lot of the press (particularly lately), the Ask.com search engine is a rather interesting engine that deserves a closer look. This article will cover some of the highlights in its 12-year history, from its start as Ask Jeeves to its innovations, as well as the most recent developments behind the scenes.
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via IT Business Net @ 4:50 28th May
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On Thursday, search engine Ask.com announced it would acquire Lexico Publishing Group, the owner of a stable of Internet reference sites such as Dictionary.com, furthering its effort to enlarge its market share and distinguish itself from other online search leaders.
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via Forbes.com @ 18:17 15th May
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NEW YORK More media may be vying for the consumer's attention, but contrary to conventional wisdom, they're watching more TV than ever before, according to Nielsen data released Tuesday (July 8). Consumers are also watching more time-shifted TV and using the Internet more.
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via Marketing y Medios @ 7:37 10th Jul
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Pole Position on Photobucket for Ask.com Photobucket has struck up a deal with Ask.com that sees the image sharing website include Ask.com search boxes on its site. The two search boxes on the main Photobucket page are now powered by Ask.com and include the search engine's logo at the side of each one.
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via Big Mouth Media @ 12:35 11th Jul
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A few weeks ago, you asked questions of Lt. Col. John Bircher, head of an organization with a difficult-to-navigate name: the U.S. Army Computer Network Operations (CNO)-Electronic Warfare (EW) Proponent's Futures Branch. Lt. Col. Bircher has answered from his perspective, at length, not just the usual 10 questions, but several more besides. Read on for his take on cyberwar, jurisdiction, ethics, and more.
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via Slashdot @ 21:23 3rd Jul
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Apple, maker of the iPod media player, said its iTunes online store has sold more than 5 billion songs since its debut five years ago as more fans abandon record shops for the Web. The site is the most popular in the United States for legal music downloads, with more than 8 million songs. ITunes customers also are renting or buying more than 50,000 movies a day, Apple said Thursday in a statement. Sales of CDs and music DVDs fell 13 percent to $15.9 billion last year, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry said yesterday. Sales of downloaded songs and mobile-phone ring tones rose 34 percent to $2.9 billion.
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via SiliconValley.com @ 8:10 20th Jun
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Lexico Publishing Group, a Long Beach-based firm that operates the Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com web sites, has been acquired by search provider Ask.com, in an all-cash deal. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Ask.com said that Lexico helps expand the firm's monthly unique visitors by 15.6M. Ask said that Lexico is profitbale, and has been seeing high double digit growth for the past two years. Lexico was founded in 1995 by Brian Kariger and Daniel Fierro. Ask.com is an operating unit of IAC.
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via SoCalTech @ 3:23 17th May
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So outrageously popular were yesterday's answers to many of those popular questions prospective iPhone 3G buyers are clamoring about, that we’ve decided to provide you with a second installment, this one covering a few questions that an AT&T spokesperson graciously took the time to answer, just for us (and, by extension, you).
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via Macworld @ 16:21 2nd Jul
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Home » EyeforTravel News » Asian News » "Consumers are using the web to ask open ended questions for the first time"
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via EyeForTravel.com @ 9:45 2nd Jul
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Ask.com's acquisition of Dictionary.com publisher Lexico Publishing Group means more ad inventory for Ask and a full-fledged sales force for Lexico.
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via ClickZ Today @ 18:16 15th May
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Ask Playbill.com is a weekly Playbill.com column that answers questions about theatre, generated by readers and Playbill.com staff, every Thursday. To ask a question, email AskPlaybill@Playbill.com. Please specify how you would like your name displayed and please include the city in which you live.
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via Playbill @ 0:03 4th Jul
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Ask Playbill.com is a weekly Playbill.com column that answers questions about theatre, generated by readers and Playbill.com staff, every Thursday. To ask a question, email AskPlaybill@Playbill.com. Please specify how you would like your name displayed and please include the city in which you live.
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via Playbill @ 0:56 23rd May
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On the ‘Midnight Hour’, babe! City of Heroes Issue 12 is rocking up the subscribers to the long-running NCsoft MMORPG.
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via Games Domain @ 19:09 3rd Jun
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"More and more, open source projects are either integrating with the web or are developed entirely for on-demand use. This requires strong web development skills--or at least good enough tools to rescue you if any of your web development skills are weak. The good news is that there are many free open source tools to help you with your web project, and given the costs of web development environments and the like, they can save you a lot of money. Here are more than five good examples.
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via Linux Today @ 9:46 19th May
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- May, 2008 -- Ask.com (www.ask.com), a leading search engine and wholly-owned business of IAC (Nasdaq:IACI), today announced an agreement to acquire Lexico Publishing Group LLC -- the owner of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com, in an all-cash transaction. More than half a billion monthly worldwide searches consist of dictionary, thesaurus, and encyclopedia queries, according to comScore.
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via Internet Ad Sales @ 12:10 27th May
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LONDON, May 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Ask.com (http://www.ask.com), a leading search engine and wholly-owned business of IAC (Nasdaq: IACI - News), today announced an agreement to acquire Lexico Publishing Group LLC - the owner of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com, in an all-cash transaction. More than half a billion monthly worldwide searches consist of dictionary, thesaurus, and encyclopedia queries, according to comScore.
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via Yahoo! Canada @ 9:14 15th May
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OAKLAND, Calif., May 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ask.com (http://www.ask.com), a leading search engine and wholly-owned business of IAC (Nasdaq: IACI), today announced an agreement to acquire Lexico Publishing Group LLC - the owner of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com, in an all-cash transaction. More than half a billion monthly worldwide searches consist of dictionary, thesaurus, and encyclopedia queries, according to comScore.
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via Macro World Investor @ 10:09 15th May
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Design used to be managed by professionals who had studied graphic design, but as budgets get tighter, speed becomes more and more important, and Web pages are critical for businesses, designers are more likely to be an afterthought. But knowing some graphic design rules can help your designs even if you\'ve never taken any courses in design.
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via About @ 9:05 19th May
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It doesn’t matter that there is no shortage of criticism, questions about the synergies of such a transaction, and legitimate knocks on Blockbuster’s (BBI) deal to acquire Circuit City Stores Inc. (CC). However, it is completely irrelevant from a trading perspective. As BMO Capital Market analyst Richard Weinhart said Friday morning, “Despite how horrific a merger appears to us, these announcements clearly make a union more likely,” and that’s what’s important – a buyout is likely to happen now more than ever.
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via Seeking Alpha @ 1:50 18th May
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On Thursday, search engine Ask.com announced it would acquire Lexico Publishing Group, the owner of a stable of Internet reference sites such as Dictionary.com, furthering its effort to enlarge its market share and distinguish itself from other online search leaders.
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via Forbes.com @ 17:55 15th May
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Questions, it is said, focus our thinking. Some go so far as to say that it is "better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." And good questions, it is generally agreed, outrank easy answers. Here then is a round-up of some of the "good questions" asked recently at SYS-CON.com, as part and parcel of our ongoing, 24 x 7 x 365 coverage of the interlocking worlds of technology and business.
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via SYS-CON Media @ 4:05 20th May
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