IAC Search and Media

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The corporation IAC Search & Media (formerly Ask Jeeves, Inc.) is a wholly-owned business of IAC/InterActiveCorp (NASDAQ symbol: IACI). [1] 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. [2]

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:

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:

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  1. ^ "IAC Search & Media: Company Overview" (company website), IAC Search & Media, 2006, webpage: IAC-Company-Overview.
  2. ^ "IAC Search & Media: Fact Sheet" (corporate profile), IAC Search & Media, 2006, webpage: IAC-Company-Fact-Sheet.
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