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Ask Acquires Lexico Publishing; To Own Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com & Reference.com
by Vikrant in May 15th, 2008
Topics: Business Tags: Acquisition, Ask, Dictionary, IAC, InteractiveCorp, Lexico Publishing, Reference, search engines, Thesaurus
Ask.com has acquired
Lexico Publishing which owns the reference sites like
Dictionary.com,
Thesaurus.com and
Reference.com. As part of the acquisition, Ask will acquire all the reference properties of Lexico Publishing Group LLC.
Ask.com, a search engine owned by IAC/InteractiveCorp, has less than five percent share of total U.S. search market. With the acquisition of
Dictionary.com […]
Popularity: 7% [?]
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