A busy day for Match.com’s parent company, IAC. IAC has announced that they will acquire AskJeeves for $1.85 billion. IAC will integrate IAC’s brands into the Ask Jeeves service; enhance Ask Jeeves’ local search capabilities — a hotly competitive area among online companies — and promote the Ask Jeeves service on IAC sites. Ask Jeeves shares jumped $5.56 to $29.80 and IAC’s shares fell 98 cents, or 4.4 percent, to $21.31.
IAC also announced the launch of Gifts.com, an online gift shopping resource that allows consumers to purchase gifts tailored to their interests, hobbies and personalities. I have always liked how Barry Diller has cobbled together a nice portfolio of complimentary websites. I wonder if Match.com members will be able to buy each other gifts?
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I think people really under estimate what kind of additional resources match.com has aquired through this aquisition.
20%+ of all traffic to plentyoffish is infected with spyware owned by ask jeeves. Websearch toolbar, funwebproducts and search assistant are just some of MANY products that are owned by ask jeeves. They have the ability to redirect any user to any site they wish at any time. All those free smilie ads you see, Search Assitant, websearch toolbar etc are all spyware/adware owned by ask jeeves.
How long will it take match.com to start throwing up popups,redirect users to thier signup page, or to insert thier own ads when a user is about to sign up to true.com americansingles.com date.com etc?
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