IAC Search and Media

The corporation IAC Search & Media (formerly Ask Jeeves, Inc.) is a wholly-owned business of IAC/InterActiveCorp (NASDAQ symbol: IACI). [

"IAC Search & Media: Company Overview" (company website), IAC Search & Media, 2006, webpage: [http://sp.ask.com/en/docs/about/company_overview.shtml IAC-Company-Overview] .] Its headquarters are located in the city of Oakland, California, with other offices throughout the United States, as well as in Europe and Asia.

IAC Search & Media was founded in 1996 in Berkeley, California by David Warthen, CTO and veteran software developer, and by Garrett Gruener, a venture capitalist at Alta Partners and the founder of Virtual Microsystems. [ "IAC Search & Media: Fact Sheet" (corporate profile), IAC Search & Media, 2006, webpage: [http://sp.ask.com/en/docs/about/fact_sheet.shtml IAC-Company-Fact-Sheet] .]

IAC Search and Media provides worldwide information retrieval products through a set of Web sites, portals and downloadable applications. IAC Search and Media's search-based portal brands include:

::* Ask.com ::* AskforKids.com::* Bloglines.com::* Evite.com::* Excite.com::* FunWebProducts.com::* IWon.com::* MyWay.com::* Zwinky

"IAC Search & Media" is a parent company of the "Ask.com", division and search engine of the "IAC Search & Media". The company division and the search engine shares a same name,　"Ask.com".

IAC Search & Media’s software includes spyware, such products are:

::* MyWay Searchbar, also known as MyWay Speedbar, MyWay Search Assistant, MyWebSearch or MyWeb Searchbar::* Ask.com Toolbar

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External links

* [http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/ask.com SiteAdvisor's report on Ask.com] .
* [http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/bloglines.com SiteAdvisor's report on Bloglines.com] .
* [http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/evite.com SiteAdvisor's report on Evite.com] .
* [http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/excite.com SiteAdvisor's report on Excite.com] .
* [http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/funwebproducts.com SiteAdvisor's report on FunWebProducts.com] .
* [http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/iwon.com SiteAdvisor's report on IWon.com] .
* [http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/myway.com SiteAdvisor's report on MyWay.com] .
* [http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/zwinky.com SiteAdvisor's report on Zwinky] .