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- Ask is IAC's glue: AskCity to AskX to AskNews
- Ask is IAC's glue: AskCity to AskX to AskNewshttp://www.analogstereo.com/saturn_vue_owners_manual.htmhttp://www.analogstereo.com/saturn_vue_owners_manual.htm
- Tags: AskNews, AskX, AskCity, IAC/InterActive Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-12-02
- IAC's AskCity hard to ask
- IAC's AskCity hard to askhttp://www.analogstereo.com/citroen_synergie_owners_manual.htmhttp://www.analogstereo.com/citroen_synergie_owners_manual.htm
- Tags: AskCity, IAC/InterActive Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-12-02
- Ask is IAC's glue: AskCity to AskX to AskNews…
- Barry Diller underscored today “how difficult it is to operate twelve totally separate businesses that have commonality only in that they are interactive.”The CEO of IAC/InterActiveCorp. asserted to investors that IAC is up to the challenge and has the solution; Glue the businesses together, via Ask.com:Ask.com is the connector, the...
- Tags: ROI, Brands, Search, Advertising, Business Models, IAC, AskCity
- Blog posts 2006-12-19
- IAC local strategies: Citysearch vs. AskCity
- I asked the $31 billion question yesterday, “How do YOU find local info?”How about the $11 billion IAC market cap question: “Will you look for local info at Citysearch or AskCity?” In “IAC’s AskCity is hard to ask” I discuss the launch yesterday of what IAC CEO Barry Diller calls...
- Tags: IAC, CitySearch, AskCity, Marketing, Brands, Search, Advertising, Local, Business Models
- Blog posts 2006-12-05
- Ask.com's Trojan Horse -- AskCity
- Ask.com's Trojan Horse -- AskCityReally, REALLY poor choice for a story titleThe "trojan" designation in the story title puts a negative, security connotation on the story. I understand what you were shooting for, but on a tech site like this, that didn't have the right effect you were looking...
- Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, SECURITY, trojan horse, story title, AskCity, Ask.com
- Discussion threads 2006-12-04
- IAC's AskCity hard to ask
- The $31 billion local online search and classifieds market opportunity is not Google’s for the taking, I put forth yesterday in “Google: $31 billion local winner?” Barry Diller’s IAC/InterActiveCorp upped the local ante today with the launch of a new, locally-focused service within IAC’s Ask.com search engine. Fellow...
- Tags: IAC, CitySearch, AskCity, Local
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
- Ask.com's Trojan Horse--AskCity
- Ask.com isn’t suffering from an inferiority complex, despite being fourth in the search engine rankings. Company CEO Jim Lanzone told me that he expects to reach double digit growth for his search engine, which currently is less than 6 percent according to various measurement services. He pointed to the fact...
- Tags: AskCity, Jim Lanzone, Search, Web Technology, Personal Technology, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-03
Additional Resources
- Ask.com: Innovation doesn't always pan out
- Ask.com in the last year or so had been a nice little Petri dish. It launched AskCity, tinkered with its interface, created universal search results and became a credible alternative to Google. The problem: Ask.com couldn't grow its base of users. With that backdrop, Interactive Corp. IAC...
- Tags: Innovation, Ask.com, Search, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-04
- IAC Citysearch: Can video ads make local search cool?
- Local old timer Citysearch announces a much needed facelift today, literally.Heralding the “next-generation” of Citysearch, the veteran IAC owned cityguide launched a bevy of trendy Web 2.0 social features and interactive services along with a new “cool” blue interface and rejuvenated tag line: “Live like an insider.” How does Citysearch...
- Tags: Video, Marketing, Local, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- IAC's Peter Horan: Front door content drives local strategy
- Can a “21st century content package” fulfill the promise of the local opportunity?Peter Horan, CEO, IAC Media & Advertising, a self-professed “guy who runs Websites for a living to sell stuff and make a profit,” believes a blending of editorial and viral components just may bridge the vast “Grand Canyon...
- Tags: strategy, Peter Horan
- Blog posts 2007-03-21
- IAC CEO Barry Diller on Ask.com
- A few weeks ago I asked Jim Lanzone, CEO, Ask.com, for his thoughts on Barry Diller, CEO of corporate parent IAC, considering Ask.com to be the “glue” for IAC’s “integrated conglomerate” of Web properties. SEE “Jim Lanzone’s vision for Ask.com: ‘Real Deal’ Interview”Lanzone told me he prefers to see himself...
- Tags: Business Models, Advertising, Search, Google, Google Software Applications, ROI, Metrics, Search Advertising, IAC, Barry Diller
- Blog posts 2007-02-07
- Jim Lanzone's vision for Ask.com: 'Real Deal' Interview
- Barry Diller, CEO, IAC/Interactive, has taken to extolling the IAC search engine property Ask.com as the “connecting glue” for IAC’s “integrated conglomerate” of diverse Web properties and services.Jim Lanzone, CEO, Ask.com, however, prefers to see himself operating as a “chef” remixing content ingredients to create a better search experience for...
- Tags: Business Models, Local, Usability, Advertising, Search, Google, Blogs, CEO Interviews, Internet Data, Brands, Marketing, The Real Deal, ROI, Metrics, Ask.com, AskX strategy
- Blog posts 2007-01-10
- Is Google search vulnerable in 2007?
- Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales wants to beat Google at its winning game, search, as I present in “Google search challenge from Wikipedia founder in 2007?”; He cites “obvious flaws” in Google search as motivation. The New York Times profiles Powerset today, a natural language search start-up in “semi-stealth mode,” also...
- Tags: Business Models, Google Software Applications, Self-Promotion, VC, Venture Capital, Google, Search, Advertising, Powerset, Ask.com
- Blog posts 2007-01-01
- Ask has the mojo to double its search market share
- Ask is aiming to double its market share in the search and judging from AskX may just have the mojo to do so. On a conference call Dec. 19 Interactive Corp. IAC chief Barry Diller outlined the companys outlook for the year ahead. ...
- Tags: IAC, AskX, Barry Diller
- Blog posts 2006-12-21
- Google and Ask.com: Inseparable?
- Barry Diller, InterActiveCorp CEO, sang the praises of Ask yesterday, hailing it as the “dream” IAC “glue” fostering a “virtuous circle of information and commerce” (see “Ask is IAC’s glue: AskCity to AskX to AskNews”): It is the dream convergence. IAC’s 200+ million visitors become interdependent, cross-sharing traffic and users,...
- Tags: ROI, Self-Promotion, Marketing, Google, Search, Advertising, Business Models
- Blog posts 2006-12-20
- What's Google Earth really up to?
- Google Earth adds another layer--this time one that incorporates information from Wikipedia, Panoramio and the Google Earth Community. As a result you can go anywhere in the world and see what people have said about it. From the official Google blog:The new Geographic Web layer we released today is one...
- Tags: Google Earth, Google Inc., Google, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-10
- $31B question: Where do YOU look for local info?
- The highly coveted, but highly fragmented, $31 billion global local search and online classified advertising market opportunity was the focus, the City of Brotherly Love was the backdrop, at the Kelsey Interactive Local Media conference in Philadelphia (see “Google: $31 billion local winner?”) last week.More than 30 keynotes and panels...
- Tags: Metrics, ecommerce, Marketing, Brands, Yellow Pages, Yahoo, Microsoft, Google, Culture, Search, Advertising, Media, Local, Business Models
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
- News to know: Qualcomm goes Wi-fi; iPhone confirmed (sort of)
- A look at Mondays key developments:Work...Microsoft code name of the day: Ohana. Mary Jo Foley will be examining a Microsoft project and a neat code name every work day in December. Its merger Monday as LSI Logic buys Agere Systems for a tidy $4 billion and Qualcomm buys two companies...
- Tags: iPhone, General, Apple iPhone
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
- Local bulls, online
- Barry Diller, CEO, IAC/InterActiveCorp, is bullish on the local opportunity online; His enthusiasm is shared by many others, his competitors.Diller is expected to announce next week a new, rebranded online destination designed to integrate and leverage existing IAC locally-oriented properties: Citysearch, Ticketmaster, Evite, Ask.com…The new initiative will be named AskCity...
- Tags: Kudzu.com, Advertising, Local, Media, Marketing
- Blog posts 2006-11-30
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