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Ask Jeeves, a small player in the search marketplace, has been sold today to an online media giant - InterActiveCorp - for $1.86 Billion USD. InterActiveCorp's properties include Expedia, Ticketmaster, Match.com, and CitySearch. For more information, refer to the article below:

http://news.com.com/Ask+Jeeves+to+be+bought+for+2+billion/2100-1030_3-5627679.html?tag=nefd.top

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Brief, practical follow-up after ’s post — for site owners, SEO folks, and researchers: what to watch and what to do now that ownership has changed.

  • Take a baseline snapshot. Export the last 30–90 days of organic traffic, top landing pages, top queries and referral sources from your analytics/Search Console equivalent so you can compare after any change.
  • Monitor crawl and index behaviour. Check server logs and your site’s indexation status regularly for new crawl patterns or drops in crawl rate; confirm sitemap and robots.txt are unchanged and accessible.
  • Watch referral sources. Set alerts for sudden referral spikes or new referring domains — acquisitions commonly trigger cross-site promotion from the buyer’s network.
  • Keep technical SEO intact. Preserve canonical tags, hreflang (if used), structured data, fast mobile performance and stable URL structure; avoid rushed template or ad changes that break markup.
  • Be ready for ad/monetization shifts. New owners often test placements and partner networks; document every design or ad change so you can correlate traffic or ranking shifts.
  • Log and communicate. Keep a dated changelog of site updates and any outreach from the new owner; if traffic moves, that timeline is essential for troubleshooting.

Good points from and the ownership clarification by — product improvements are possible, but they usually arrive over months and may prioritize traffic or monetization over research-oriented features. ’s hope for “improvement” is reasonable, but don’t rely on a single consumer search for academic work — as suggested, keep using domain-specific indexes and institutional resources alongside general search engines.

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That explains why my mom came into my room earlier today and started saying how Ask Jeeves has been all over the television lately. :) I'm wondering what this will do to the search engine market ... isn't Expedia owned by MSN?

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Will ask jeeves be improve now?

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isn't Expedia owned by MSN?

Nope! Barry Diller owns it ( http://www.iac.com/ )!

BTW if you are a Fortune Subscriber or are accessing the net using AOL then you should read .

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ohhhhhh Really :eek:


I was thinking about buying that website :cry:


just kidding :cheesy:


anyway I hope whoever bought that search engine will work hard to provide a better service for scientists and researchers.

And if there are any new coming auctions, let me know soon so I can save some cash.

:cheesy: :cheesy: :cheesy:

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