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> Ask.com, a search engine that no longer innovates but happily takes in $400 million in annual revenue Holy crap. I must have taken a wrong turn in life. HOW?
by easytiger 12y ago
> Ask.com, a search engine that no longer innovates but happily takes in $400 million in annual revenue
Holy crap. I must have taken a wrong turn in life. HOW?!
- patio11 12y agoToolbars and arbitrage.
- scott_karana 12y agoWhat arbitrage, exactly?...
- GeneralMayhem 12y agoThey advertise their own search result pages on Google, then sell a bunch of ads at higher CPC on their page, with the idea being that they'll make enough on the commission from the second ad to pay for the Google ad with a profit.
- Rzor 12y agoDidn't Google cut that out a long time ago? I didn't find any evidence that Ask was still doing this.
- patio11 12y agohttp://searchengineland.com/will-ask-com-google-arbitrage-ever-stop-203565 http://searchengineland.com/will-ask-com-google-arbitrage-ev...
- kyrre 12y agobasically malware (ask toolbar)
- Domenic_S 12y agoThey have a massive office building in the East Bay, too, every time I passed it I asked myself how in the????
- jackery 12y agoThat's actually closer to their quarterly earnings according to IAC's earnings releases (see search and apps) (http://ir.iac.com/results.cfm?Quarter=&Year=2013 http://ir.iac.com/results.cfm?Quarter=&Year=2013).