Barry Diller (IAC) buys Ask Jeeves

Discussion in 'All Other Search Engines' started by bustour, Mar 22, 2005.

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    Ask Jeeves does nothing for me and I've never been prone to use it save one or two times out of curiousity. Does this purchase legitimize AJ? Strengthen it? Allow it to compete with the big three? Or just business as usual?

    Any thoughts from the DP crowd on this recent acquisition?
     
    bustour, Mar 22, 2005 IP
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    Barry Diller is a force in the business, where is your article link?
     
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    T0PS3O Feel Good PLC

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    Lever Deep Thought

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    If Ask Jeeves does nothing then why is the bid reputed to be in the region of $1.85 Billion ? That's a lot of money for nothing and I got tons of that kicking around if anyone want's any... :rolleyes: :)
     
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    I guess that's the question really. Is the $1.85B price tag indicative of AJ's worth? Are other sites seeing a lot of traffic coming from them?
     
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    You gotta love the Wikipedia entry The ink isn't even dry on the deal and someone's added it to the page.
     
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    All I know is without fail AskJeeves seems to always be the first search engine to spider every page of my site. Google/Yahoo/Msn might hit it a couple pages and come back, AskJ hits every page within a day or 2 it seems. I don't get much traffic from them yet but it appears they have the processing power needed to run an awesome system
     
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