Ask.com goes on a .com Shopping Spree

2008 May 14
by MHB

Ask.com bought several reference sites including  Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com in its acquisition of Lexico Publishing Group LLC.

Terms of the deal, set to be announced Thursday, aren’t being disclosed.

Dictionary.com is the most popular of the newly acquired reference sites, drawing 22.1 million visitors worldwide in March, according to comScore Inc. That represented a 20 percent increase from the same time last year.

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6 Responses leave one →
  1. 2008 May 15
    Damir permalink

    Interesting News

  2. 2008 May 15
    Tim permalink

    Finally something smart from ask…wow lots of news, this and CBS buying cnet (tv.com) …cool stuff wheres my checkbook

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