Prior to Microsoft, Berkowitz was chief executive of Ask.com and has been credited for its turnaround.
Even without Jeeves, Ask.com can still take you anywhere on the net you need to go.
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And sure, you can go to Google or Ask.com and get your questions answered for free.
After the deal closes, About CEO Darline Jean will report to Ask.com CEO Doug Leeds.
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In 2006, Microsoft hired Ask.com Chief Executive Steve Berkowitz to head its online services.
It is 15 years ago to the day that the peculiar search engine that is Ask.com was created.
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The former CEO of Ask.com is back, this time with Clicker.com, which he bills as the TV Guide for the Internet.
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The former CEO of Ask.com started the company Clicker in 2008 as an online guide to where you can watch TV shows.
Clicker is the latest brain child of the former CEO of Ask.com.
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Jeeves, the former mascot of struggling search engine Ask.com, may be dead.
Apostolos Gerasoulis, executive vice president of search technology at Google competitor Ask.com is equally pessimistic about the search industry's battles with Webmasters who manipulate results.
Lanzone, a Web veteran who ran Ask.com from 2006-08, is undaunted.
Barry Diller is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of IAC, an Internet company whose properties include Ask.com, Match.com, Citysearch, Evite, The Daily Beast and Vimeo.
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According to Ask.com, 57% of Americans age 65 to 74 year olds wear dentures, making them a distinct possibility, and direct cost, future retirees are likely to face.
Leeds notes that 45% of the queries on the Ask.com site are still phrased in the form of a question, compared to just 8% of queries on Google.
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Ask.com would have the most to gain from competition with Google: In June, Ask had 5% of U.S. search market share, compared with Google's 49.5%, according to comScore Media Metrix.
Big Dell customers like Ask.com are signing up for new networks outfitted with bare-bones "blade" servers--so called because they they can be inserted and removed as easily as knives into kitchen blocks.
Safka repeated his claim, however, that Ask.com users ask full-sentence questions three times as often as users of other search engines, saying that the Lexico acquisition is designed to tap into that.
Ask's Nicholas Graham, meanwhile, claims that IAC's donation to the CDT was intended to earn Ask.com a seat at the discussion about how to improve search privacy, not to buy the CDT's loyalty.
Microsoft and Ask.com issued a joint statement over the weekend calling on members of the search industry to meet and discuss ways they can work together to define privacy principles and protect user information.
When the search engine Ask.com launched a privacy protection program it calls AskEraser last December, it intended to hold out an olive branch to activists that oppose how search engines track people's private information.
Ask.com has over 100 million monthly uniques.
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As chief executive and chairman of IAC, Diller has used that confidence--and Malone's backing--to get his hands on some of the most coveted Internet properties available, including Ask.com, Expedia.com, Match.com, LendingTree.com (coveted, at least, until the subprime mortgage crisis began) and Ticketmaster.
Dozens of smaller dot.coms, from Ask Jeeves to Respond.com, are also selling private-label versions of their technologies to big companies, largely to move away from over-dependence on consumer revenues.
To learn more about pre-tax benefits, like health care FSAs, invest a little time on a site like SaveSmartSpendHealthy.com or ask about it at work.
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After a subscriber logs on, Easycram.com would ask what course he needs to cram for--say, College Algebra.
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