IAC Search and Media
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The corporation IAC Search & Media (formerly Ask Jeeves, Inc.) is a wholly owned business of IAC/InterActiveCorp (NASDAQ symbol: IACI). [1] Its headquarters are located in the city of Oakland, California, with other offices throughout the United States, as well as in Europe and Asia.
IAC Search & Media was founded in 1996 in Berkeley, California by David Warthen, Chief technical officer and veteran software developer, and by Garrett Gruener, a venture capitalist at Alta Partners and the founder of Virtual Microsystems. [2]
IAC Search and Media provides worldwide information retrieval products through a set of Web sites, portals and downloadable applications. IAC Search and Media's search-based portal brands include:
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- Ask.com
- AskforKids.com
- Bloglines.com
- Evite.com
- Excite.com
- FunWebProducts.com
- IWon.com
- MyWay.com
- Zwinky
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IAC Search & Media is a parent company of the "Ask.com", division and search engine of the IAC Search & Media. The company division and the search engine shares a same name, "Ask.com".
IAC Search & Media’s software includes spyware, such products are:
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- MyWay Searchbar, also known as MyWay Speedbar, MyWay Search Assistant, MyWebSearch or MyWeb Searchbar
- Ask.com Toolbar
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[edit] Notes
- ^ "IAC Search & Media: Company Overview" (company website), IAC Search & Media, 2006, webpage: IAC-Company-Overview.
- ^ "IAC Search & Media: Fact Sheet" (corporate profile), IAC Search & Media, 2006, webpage: IAC-Company-Fact-Sheet.
[edit] External links
- SiteAdvisor's report on Ask.com.
- SiteAdvisor's report on Bloglines.com.
- SiteAdvisor's report on Evite.com.
- SiteAdvisor's report on Excite.com.
- SiteAdvisor's report on FunWebProducts.com.
- SiteAdvisor's report on IWon.com.
- SiteAdvisor's report on MyWay.com.
- SiteAdvisor's report on Zwinky.
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