Financial analysts and search engine marketing industry execs see financial benefit in prospect of a Microsoft-Ask.com deal.
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Despite recent weakness, there's ‘no desire to sell off search business,’ Diller says; cash headed back to shareholders.
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Barry Diller’s conglomerate, which includes Ask.com, Match.com and Ticketmaster, to dissolve in 5-way spin-off.
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HSN and mortgage unit Tree.com take charges; no spending spree with $1.3B, Diller says.
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Restructuring charges tied to pending breakup and mortgage-unit woes eat into results.
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Fashion-themed virtual world for girls joins Zwinky, Webfetti and newly acquired Lexico in Internet stable before spinoff.
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No trade in shares seen for a clean divorce with John Malone’s media company.
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Restrictions in place until March trial on control of the company and fate of CEO Barry Diller, report says.
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Parent of Ask.com, Ticketmaster, LendingTree, and HSN flattens structure in advance of planned breakup.
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Diller slams Liberty Media's bid to oust him, as media moguls clash over terms of a plan to split company into five pieces. See also: Diller's Online Empire
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Natural language search engine hakia claims to provide more accurate results than Google. But analysts say the startup has a ways to go.
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The search site is launching a feature that allows people to delete data on their search queries in an effort to bolster personal privacy while surfing the Internet.
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Ask.com launches Health Smart Answers, which aims to aggregate health information online and become the authoritative source for medical problems large and small.
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Users find search’s second banana more appealing for overall services, according to University of Michigan consumer survey. AOL ranks slightly above IRS.
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Analyst says Yahoo’s Panama will boost online local search ad market’s advantage over print.
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Media conglomerate takes hefty charge, but revenue rose 8 percent.
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IAC/Interactive previews AJAX-powered search site, hopes to gain ground on Google, Yahoo.
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Barry Diller says his company, IAC/InterActiveCorp, will expand its reach into online news.
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Search king’s stock passed high-water mark as it captures 45.4 percent of the search market.
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Search engines vie to provide their features everywhere—even on each other’s sites.
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