MediaPost.com logo MediaPost.com 1 month ago

Online Media Daily: Asking Price?

Speculation is mounting about who will buy Ask.com when the "for sale" sign starts dangling from the struggling search engine's marquee. Full Article at MediaPost.com

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  1. Diller has only himself to blame ... Ask was really the first to do something dynamic with 'blended' or 'universal' search. It was really Diller's failure to invest that caused Ask not [to] be able to realize its potential. Maybe they didn't have the resources, or maybe Diller underestimated the costs.
    SOURCE: Top Tech News 1 month ago
  2. Ask would give Microsoft some incremental volume and share -- then it just becomes an Ask-branded version of Bing
    SOURCE: Top Tech News 1 month ago
  3. Mobile is now regarded as much more important than it was even a few months ago ... With all of the stuff around [Google's mobile operating system] Android, Google is consolidating their undisputed leadership of mobile, so both Yahoo and Microsoft may be scrutinizing mobile more closely.
    SOURCE: Top Tech News 1 month ago
  4. Yahoo is going to sell these big accounts, but it will be Microsoft's AdCenter platform that delivers the ads ... Any agencies doing self-service will go directly to Microsoft, even though they may be representing Yahoo clients. This may be where there's some areas of conflict.
    SOURCE: Top Tech News 1 month ago
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