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 [...]

IAC and Black Web Enterprises (BWE) have jointly launched RushmoreDrive.  It is a search engine exclusively focused on the Black community which uses a patent pending vertical search algorithm to deliver results that are highly targeted towards the Black community including African American, Black Caribbean, and Black Hispanic communities, as well as other people of [...]

Hackers, spammers and phishing scam creators are loving their new destinations.  As per the new report on cyber security by Symantec, the users of social networks and search engines are more likely to face attacks of viruses, malicious codes and phishing scams.
Alfred Huger, vice president of engineering at Symantec, says:
The malicious attacks – including recent [...]