January 10, 2008

Ask Shuffles Management

Jim Lanzone, CEO of Ask.com since April 2006, has left the company to serve as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Redpoint Ventures, a venture capital firm.

Lanzone will be replaced by former Match.com CEO Jim Safka, who has been leading IAC's venture capital arm, Primal Ventures, since April. He will retain that role as well.

Lanzone had been VP of product management at Ask.com since 2001, and was promoted to CEO in 2006 when previous CEO Steve Berkowitz jumped ship to join Microsoft.

Ask.com also named a new president, Scott Garell. Since 2005, Garell has been CEO of IAC's consumer applications and portals business, which includes Fun Web Products, IAC's portals, Evite and Pronto. He joined IAC Search & Media in April 2004 as SVP of marketing. He's also served as EVP of domestic sites and search, where he managed Ask.com, iWon, and My Way. John Park will replace Garell as president of IAC Consumer Applications and Portals.

Ask parent IAC is in the midst of splitting into five separate companies.

Posted by Kevin Newcomb at 11:02 AM | Permalink

March 15, 2007

Q&A With Ask.com's Gary Price

Gary Price, director of online information resources at Ask.com, is no stranger to most Search Engine Watch readers. He spent a year and a half as news editor of this site before he left to join Ask.com just over a year ago. His Resource Shelf and DocuTicker sites are indispensable tools for hardcore researchers and search technology junkies.

Eric Enge recently spoke with Gary about his role at Ask.com, some of Ask.com's latest products, and the relationships between search engines and librarians.

Posted by Kevin Newcomb at 12:43 PM | Permalink

January 17, 2007

Former About.com Boss Heads to IAC

Former About.com and AllBusiness.com CEO Peter Horan has been named CEO of IAC Media & Advertising, overseeing Ask.com, Citysearch, consumer applications and portals, and the ad sales group. He will report to IAC president and COO Doug Lebda, and the CEOs of the Media & Advertising businesses will report to him, including Jim Lanzone of Ask.com, Briggs Ferguson of Citysearch, Richard Stalzer of IAC Advertising Solutions, and Scott Garell of IAC Consumer Applications and Portals.

Horan tells paidContent that he wasn’t looking for a move but it was “impossible to say no.” He also made it clear that he's not coming in to "fix" things, but to take things to the next level.

Posted by Kevin Newcomb at 11:35 AM | Permalink

September 11, 2006

Ask.com To Open R&D Center in Germany

Ask.com announced a new Germany research and development center to be headed up by Eric Heymann, former head of technology at Seekport, as director of global content acquisition today. The German R&D center will work closely with the Pisa, Italy, Campbell, Calif., and Piscataway, N.J. locations. Apostolos Gerasoulis, VP of search technology at Ask.com, said, "the expansion of our European research and development team will allow Ask.com to continue to develop and scale our world-class search." The full press release is posted below.

Ask.com Announces Research and Development Center in Germany

Eric Heymann, Former Head of Technology for Seekport, Appointed to Lead Hamburg Team

OAKLAND, Calif., September 11, 2006 – Ask.com, an operating business of IAC/InterActiveCorp (Nasdaq: IACI), today announced the formation of a new development center in Hamburg, Germany. The company also announced the appointment of Eric Heymann as director of global content acquisition for Ask.com. The former head of technology at Seekport, Heymann will lead the development team in Hamburg.

“The expansion of our European research and development team will allow Ask.com to continue to develop and scale our world-class search,” said Apostolos Gerasoulis, executive vice president of search technology at Ask.com. “In addition, we are proud of the appointment of Eric Heymann as the head of the Hamburg team, as he is widely recognized for his expertise in information retrieval, crawling technologies, Web algorithms and scalable systems. His many years of experience and expertise in search will prove extremely beneficial for our users worldwide.”

The Hamburg team will focus on global search technology research and development, working directly with the Ask.com R&D centers in Pisa, Italy, Hangzhou, China, Campbell, Calif., and Piscataway, N.J. Following the opening of the research center in Pisa earlier this year, this move continues to solidify Ask.com’s presence in Europe, with recent site launches of Ask Espana, Ask Deutschland, Ask France, Ask Italia and Ask Nederland.

As director of global content acquisition for Ask.com, Heymann will play an important role in the development of core technologies that power the Ask.com search engine. Specifically, Heymann and his team will focus on crawling technologies to index global Web content, including Web pages, images, news and blog content, among others.

Heymann joins Ask.com from Seekport Internet Technologies GmbH, a search company focused on search solutions for consumers and B2B customers. At Seekport, Heymann was director of technology, Europe and responsible for the management of all technical professionals as well as all technology development for the company’s numerous sites, including Seekport Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, UK and France. Prior to Seekport, Heymann was technical director, Search at Lycos Europe N.V., where he was responsible for all search brands and products across Europe. Also, Heymann is a co-inventor of Fireball and Paperball, two German-language search engines.

Heymann holds a master’s of computer science degree with honors from Technische Universität, Berlin.

About Ask.com A leading search engine on the Web, Ask.com combines world-class search technology with one-of-a-kind search tools to help people get what they are looking for faster. Ask.com sites include Ask.com US (http://www.Ask.com ), Ask.com Deutschland, Ask.com Espana, Ask.com France, Ask.com Italia, Ask.com Japan, Ask.com Nederlands and Ask.com UK. Additionally, Ask.com syndicates its search technology and advertising units to a network of affiliate partners. Ask.com is a division of IAC Search & Media, a wholly-owned business of IAC/InterActiveCorp (Nasdaq: IACI). Ask.com b-roll footage is available at www.thenewsmarket.com/ask.

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August 24, 2006

Ask.com Hires Former PayPal CTO, Chuck Geiger

Yesterday, Ask.com hired Chuck Geiger, former CTO of PayPal, as executive vice president of technology and engineering. Mr. Geiger has 17 years of experience in the industry and, in addition to PayPal, has held senior positions at various technology companies, including Protrade.com, Travelocity and Gateway. Chuck Geiger will manage site engineering, IT and operations, quality assurance, data engineering, and program management for Ask.com. The full press release is pasted below.

Ask.com Appoints Chuck Geiger as Executive Vice President of Technology and Engineering Former PayPal CTO to Head Worldwide Site Engineering for Ask.com OAKLAND, Calif., August 23, 2006 – Ask.com, an operating business of IAC/InterActiveCorp (Nasdaq: IACI), today announced that Chuck Geiger has joined as executive vice president of technology and engineering. With 17 years of experience with leading technology companies, including recent executive-level positions at PayPal and eBay, Geiger brings extensive engineering and operational experience to the company. In his new position, Geiger will manage site engineering, IT and operations, quality assurance, data engineering, and program management for Ask.com. In addition, Geiger will oversee engineering for Bloglines, the world’s most popular free online service for searching, subscribing, publishing and sharing news feeds, blogs, and rich web content. “Chuck has a great balance of technology, business, and mentorship abilities that will help Ask.com's technology groups scale domestically and internationally,” said Jim Lanzone, CEO of Ask.com. “With Chuck’s help and expertise, we hope to take our technology organization to the next level.” Most recently, Geiger served as CTO and acting CEO of Protrade.com, a sports entertainment start-up that provides evaluation tools for athletic performance. Prior to his tenure at Protrade.com, Geiger was CTO of PayPal and managed all key technology practice areas and a team of more than 500 professionals. As vice president of product development and architecture at eBay, Geiger was responsible for creating the next generation architecture, systems, and platform at eBay. Geiger has also held senior-level positions with leading organizations including Gateway, Travelocity, Texas Instruments and American Airlines Decision Technologies, among others. “With a new site and cutting-edge search technology, Ask.com is well-poised to continue its swift climb up the search ladder,” said Geiger. “Ask.com has made a name for itself as being an innovator in search, and I look forward to applying my experience to help drive further advancements for searchers. This is definitely an exciting time to be joining the organization.” Geiger holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Kansas. About Ask.com

A leading search engine on the Web, Ask.com combines world-class search technology with one-of-a-kind search tools to help people get what they are looking for faster. Ask.com sites include Ask.com US (http://www.Ask.com ), Ask.com Deutschland, Ask.com Espana, Ask.com France, Ask.com Italia, Ask.com Japan, Ask.com Nederlands and Ask.com UK. Additionally, Ask.com syndicates its search technology and advertising units to a network of affiliate partners. Ask.com is a division of IAC Search & Media, a wholly-owned business of IAC/InterActiveCorp (Nasdaq: IACI). Ask.com b-roll footage is available at www.thenewsmarket.com/ask.

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August 16, 2006

The Inside Scoop from Search Bloggers

The major search engines all have unofficial bloggers talking about what's going on in their respective companies. At a recent SES session, search-blog stars Jeremy Zawodny, Gary Price, Matt Cutts and Niall Kennedy all revealed their modus operandi, and guest writer Sara Holoubek was there to capture their insights for today's SearchDay article, Expose: Search Engine Bloggers Tell All.

Posted by Chris Sherman at 7:44 PM | Permalink

August 4, 2006

Gary Price, Former SEW News Editor Gets Engaged!

I am honored to bring you the news that Gary Price has plans to get married to his long time girlfriend, Lisa. Gary Price was the news editor here at Search Engine Watch and left on February 9, 2006 to work at Ask.com. Gary continues to run ResourceShelf and DocuTicker while holding the title Director of Online Information Resources at Ask.com.

It is worth noting that Gary has worked with Danny and Chris for years. He wrote the The Invisible Web with Chris Sherman. Bottom line, Gary has given so much to our industry, mostly behind the scenes and he deserves so much.

Mazol Tov Gary & Lisa! Join the discussion at our Search Engine Watch Forums thread named Gary Price to Get Married!!!

Posted by Barry Schwartz at 8:57 AM | Permalink

June 6, 2006

Mark Fletcher Leaves Ask.com & Bloglines

Mark Fletcher, founder of the popular web-based RSS reader Bloglines, has announced that he is leaving the service. On February 8, 2005 Ask.com acquired Bloglines and continued to add features and resources to the service. Just last week Ask launched a blog and feed search service with the help of the Bloglines team. Mark said he is leaving not just to spend more time with his family but more because he wants to start up new companies and help other startups succeed. Mark said he is confident in leaving Bloglines in the Ask.com hands.

Posted by Barry Schwartz at 10:32 AM | Permalink

May 16, 2006

Tuoc Luong, Ask.com's Senior VP of Engineering Leaves

WebProNews.com reports that Tuoc Luong, the Senior Vice President of Engineering and Product Management at Ask.com have left to join Zazzle. Tuoc Luong was appointed the post back on February 13, 2002 but has decided to leave Ask.com due to "changes in the technology organization structure," an Ask.com spokesperson told me. This was a planned move discussed towards the end of 2005. At least he didn't join Yahoo or another search company like the CEO did.

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May 3, 2006

Ask.com Second TV Blitz Stars Chief Scientist Guru, Apostolos Gerasoulis

ClickZ reports that Ask.com will be launching its second set of "post-Jeeves campaigns" today (see 1st set here). In these TV campaigns, you may notice that one of the founders of Teoma, the technology being used to power Ask.com, Apostolos Gerasoulis will be the main star.

Reportedly, Apostolos will be searching for "pimped out cars" in Ask.com and find results that use words such as "tight" or "phat." This would demonstrate to the TV viewer that Ask.com "understands concepts" whereas other search engines may not. The ClickZ article describes a couple other TV commercials Ask.com's top scientist leads in; I can't wait to see them.

Postscript: Just spotted the TV commercials posted at http://about.ask.com/docs/about/televisionads.shtml check it out!

Posted by Barry Schwartz at 8:45 AM | Permalink

May 2, 2006

News.com Interviews Ask.com's New CEO, Jim Lanzone

News.com has published an interview with Jim Lanzone, the new CEO of Ask.com. As you know, Jim Lanzone was appointed the CEO spot at Ask.com after Berkowitz left Ask.com for Microsoft. Since then, Jim flew off to SES Italy to give the keynote he was scheduled for months ago. During that time he gave a quick interview at John Battelle's blog. Today, News.com posted a longer interview with Jim Lanzone, asking some tough questions about Ask.com's future, Steve leaving, and competition.

Posted by Barry Schwartz at 9:33 AM | Permalink

April 25, 2006

Quick Interview With Jim Lanzone; New CEO Of Ask.com

John Battelle has a quick interview with Jim Lanzone, the new CEO of Ask.com. He asks Jim three questions;

1) How feel? 2) Compete? (In relation to Steve joining MSN) 3) Changes?

Jim answers them, well, like a CEO would. Jim is currently in Italy, getting ready to keynote at SES Italy.

As a side note, I will be posting coverage of SES Toronto at my blog and posting roundups here.

Posted by Barry Schwartz at 8:28 AM | Permalink

April 24, 2006

Ask.com Appoints Jim Lanzone CEO

Just days after Ask.com chief Steve Berkowitz jumped ship to Microsoft's MSN, IAC/InterActive Corp. has appointed Vice President of Product Management Jim Lanzone as CEO. Congratulations, Jim!

From the press release announcing the move:

"Jim is one of the most respected leaders in the search industry, having been principally responsible every day for the turnaround of the Ask product and brand over the past several years," said Doug Lebda, IAC President and Chief Operating Officer. "With his vision for the future and successful track record for driving the Ask.com business, he has been and will be the ideal leader for the next stage of the company's growth."

"We have a lot of momentum behind Ask.com," said Mr. Lanzone. "My goal is to keep pushing us forward down the path we're on. With the team we have in place and the backing of IAC/InterActiveCorp, I believe Ask can take a significant piece of the search pie in the years ahead."

Want to comment? Join our forum thread named Jim Lanzone New CEO of Ask.com.

Postscript: John Battelle has a short but nice interview with Jim post-appointment now up here.

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April 22, 2006

Ask.com Chief Steve Berkowitz Jumps Ship To Microsoft's MSN

Steve Berkowitz, head of Ask.com and the man who has helped steered that service to new successes, has been hired by Microsoft to run its online business group.

Steve will be senior vice president of MSN's Online Business Group. Microsoft says:

He will be responsible for running the Online Business group, which includes include MSN.com, MSNTV and MSN Internet Access programming, advertising sales, business development, and marketing for Live Platforms, MSN and Windows Live. This teams mission is to deliver world-class go to market leadership, that wins customers to our services and builds a world leading advertising business. The responsibility for the monetization of our Live Platform, MSN and Windows Live assets is owned by this team, and includes end-to-end management of the online P&L.

Steve is currently CEO of IAC Search & Media, which encompasses Ask. His start date with MSN is May 8. The New York Times reports that Steve's job at Ask is now being assumed by IAC Search & Media president Doug Lebda.

The news of Steve's hire was sent out to MSN employees on Friday with this announcement from Kevin Johnson, Microsoft's copresident of the platforms & services division:

I am pleased to announce that Steve Berkowitz will be joining the Platforms and Services Division (PSD) as Senior Vice President, Online Business Group, reporting to me. Steve succeeds David Cole, who will begin his leave of absence in May.

Most recently, Steve was the CEO of Ask.com, a division of IAC/InterActiveCorp. At Ask, Steve is credited with building the management team that orchestrated the turnaround of Ask.com, grew their user base, increased customer satisfaction, and gained share in the search market over the last year.

Steve is an accomplished senior executive with a rich skill set, including consumer brand building, media, marketing, operations, people management, finance, and technology. He also brings a great blend of start-up and high growth business experiences. Prior to joining Ask, Steve was the President and COO of IDG Books, where he successfully built a consumer brand by expanding the "Dummies" series of books to cover topics ranging from C++ to pet care.

Steves management experience, deep functional knowledge of the search and Internet space, and understanding of both the offline and online publishing worlds make him a great choice to lead the Online Business Group. He is a proven leader, and is excited by the opportunity to take the assets weve built in MSN and drive our software + services vision forward.

Steve will start this assignment on May 8th. David Cole and I will work together to ensure a smooth transition to Steve.

Please join me in welcoming Steve to Microsoft, and thanking David for his contribution to the company and to MSN.

Regards, Kevin Johnson Co-President Platforms & Services Division

I won't go into more depth on the move right now as it's the weekend, and I almost never work weekends. But I had to check my email today, saw the news from Microsoft and wanted to get something up quickly.

In short, I think it's a great win for Microsoft. Steve knows what it's like to be an underdog in the search space and fight your way back onto the radar screen. My main reaction really is why stop at Steve? Microsoft should have bought Ask long ago.

As I wrote before about the current search wars, Microsoft entered the battle against Google and Yahoo from square one. When it took on Netscape (and other players), it at least acquired technology rather than try to start from scratch.

Want to comment or discuss? Visit our Search Engine Watch Forums thread, Ask.com Chief Berkowitz Heads To MSN.

Posted by Danny Sullivan at 4:57 AM | Permalink

March 21, 2006

Gary Price Interviewed; Ask's New Butler?

Library Journal has an interview with Gary Price, of Ask.com and formerly the News Editor of Search Engine Watch. The interview goes through Gary's new role at Ask.com, his continued work at Resource Shelf and many other topics. When I saw Jim Lanzone, from Ask.com, at SES NYC a month ago, I told him that Gary is the closest thing to Jeeves that I know. So in reality, the loss of the Jeeves character has been fulfilled by the real deal, Gary Price.

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March 16, 2006

Ask Appoints Senior Vice President And Chief Scientist

Ask.com has appointed Tao Yang as the new senior vice president and chief scientist of Ask.com. Yang's role will be to build out Ask.com's "system infrastructure" and "classification technologies." Yang was a co-inventor of Ask.com's search technology, Teoma, now known as ExpertRank.

Full Release:

Ask.com Appoints Tao Yang Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist

Yang to Drive Continued Development of Ask.com Search Technologies

OAKLAND, Calif., March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Ask.com today announced that Tao Yang, one of the foremost experts in scalable computing and algorithmic search, has been named senior vice president and chief scientist. In his new role, Yang will drive the development and growth of Ask.com search technologies on a global scale, with a key area of focus on continued development of large-scale system infrastructure and classification technologies to deliver the most relevant search experience available for users. An Ask.com executive since the Company acquired Teoma Technologies, Inc. in 2001, Yang is a co-inventor of the ExpertRank (formally Teoma) search algorithm, having co-led search technology research and development since 2000. Integrated into the Ask.com search engine in 2001, ExpertRank represents the industry's first search algorithm to determine relevance by evaluating a site's authority on a specific topic (Subject-Specific Popularity SM) versus the site's popularity on the Web at large, and executes the required additional computations in real-time. With particular expertise in developing revolutionary search algorithms and building supporting infrastructures, Yang has been directly responsible for scaling search architectures and algorithms that handle millions of pages, to giant-scale systems that can handle billions of documents in terms of relevancy, performance, and freshness. "Tao's impact at Ask has been immeasurable, due in large part to his role in transforming Ask.com search into one of only four technologies operating at a world-class level today," said Steve Berkowitz, Ask.com chief executive officer. "Tao has been instrumental in pioneering some of the most important developments in the history of search, particularly in the area of large-scale distributed architectures and algorithms, and we look forward to his continued contributions." Yang received his bachelor of science in computer science and masters of engineering in artificial intelligence from Zhejiang University, China, in 1984 and 1987 respectively, and his masters of science and Ph.D. in computer science from Rutgers University in 1990 and 1993 respectively. As a professor of computer science at the University of California, Santa Barbara since 1993, Yang has been a leading expert in the areas of parallel and distributed systems, Internet search, cluster-based services, and high performance scientific computing with over 90 technical publications. He has served on numerous conference program committees, journal editorial boards, and government review panels. Yang was formerly chief scientist and vice president of research and development during Teoma's startup stage, and was chief scientist and vice president of search development at Ask.com.

About Ask.com A leading search engine on the Web, Ask.com combines world-class search technology with one-of-a-kind search tools to help people get what they are looking for faster. Ask.com sites include Ask.com US (http://www.Ask.com), Ask.com Deutschland, Ask.com Espana, Ask France, Ask Italia, Ask.com Japan Ask Nederlands and Ask.com UK. Additionally, Ask.com syndicates its search technology and advertising units to a network of affiliate partners. Ask.com is a division of IAC Search & Media, a wholly-owned business of IAC/InterActiveCorp.

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February 6, 2006

Ask Jeeves Opens European R&D Center; Several Interesting Live Demos and Papers by AJ R&D Center Leader Also Available

We've been posting about several new R&D centers from Yahoo and Google in the past few week's and today we've learned that Ask Jeeves has opened an R&D center in Pisa, Italy.

From the announcement, The research center will serve as Ask Jeeves' European hub for search technology research and development, working directly with the company's U.S.-based research centers in Campbell, Calif. and Piscataway, N.J...The company recently launched two European Web search sites, Ask Espana and Ask Deutschland, with additional European launches planned later this year...Lead by Antonio Gulli, an expert in search engine technology and the creator of Italy's first search engine, Arianna, the Ask Jeeves European research center will support all of Ask Jeeves search sites, including the flagship Ask.com.

In April 2005, we blogged a quick entry about a paper Mr. Gulli was presenting at WWW 2005 Conference titled: A Personalized Search Engine based on Web-snippet Hierarchical Clustering (PDF).

Gulli's home page is not only home to a treasure chest of interesting reading, slide presentations, tutorials, etc. but also to several live web demos including:

+ SnakeT (Alpha) "Hierarchical Clustering Engine for Book, News, Blogs and Web-Snippets." This is the search tool described in the paper linked above.

+ ComeToMyHead: a News Search Engine with Images, Classification and Personalization

+ Comparison Engine: Find Your Own Rank on Many Engines

Postscript: Here are a few other papers that Gulli co-athored for WWW 2005.

+ Ranking Stream of News (PDF)

+ The Anatomy of a News Search Engine (PDF)

+ Building an Open Source Meta Search Engine (PDF)

+ The Indexable Web is More than 11.5 billion pages (PDF)

Posted by Gary Price at 2:09 PM | Permalink

December 19, 2005

Ask Jeeves Plans to Grow Personnel Ranks in 2006

Jonathan Berr, reports in The Street.com story: Diller Asks Jeeves to Grow, that AJ management has been charged by IAC/InterActive CEO, Barry Diller, to grow the company in terms of personnel. AJ's CEO, Steve Berkowitz, tells Berr to look for an increase of about 20% in staffing.

From the article: The expansion comes as Jeeves, which employs 650 workers now, posts solid gains in traffic but remains overshadowed by its more famous and deeper-pocketed rivals. IAC shares are down 10% for the year..."What we really want to do is grow share," says Berkowitz, who has headed Ask Jeeves since 2001, in an interview. "A lot of stuff is going to be happening" next year.

Last week, I posted that new NetRatings numbers showed that AJ had a 77% increase in search volume during a five month period that ended in October.

Want to work at Ask Jeeves? Here's their job openings database.

Thanks to Barry at SER for the news tip.

Posted by Gary Price at 2:18 PM | Permalink

December 2, 2005

A Look at Working at Ask Jeeves

I'm regularly posting about job openings and working life at Google, Yahoo and MSN. However, I don't think I've ever included any job listings or stories about Ask Jeeves. About two weeks ago (we missed this article), the San Francisco Chronicle offered a profile of what it's like to work for AJ in the article: Bay Area Premier Employers, Ask Jeeves, Inc.

[Glen] Sunnergren, [senior vice president of human resources] who joined the company four years ago, says that one of the reasons why Ask Jeeves is a great place to work is that the company doesn't have a bureaucracy or hierarchical structure. "Our size is an advantage," he said. "We are collaborative by nature. . . . You have to be quick, agile and collaborative to get work done here.

Ask Jeeves lists job openings at AskJeevesCareers.com.

Postscript: Speaking of working at AJ, Saqib Mausoof, Business Intelligence manager, shares about his experiences on the AJ blog about taking some time off and going to Pakistan to help in the relief efforts after the devestating earthquake that took place few months ago.

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September 30, 2004

Ask Jeeves UK Cuts Sales Staff

Ask Jeeves cuts back UK direct sales department

Search engine Ask Jeeves has cut a number of jobs from its UK sales department as part of a restructuring drive as it prepares to expand into Europe.

But the company said that the loss of seven jobs would not see overall headcount reduced, as it's actively recruiting in other areas.

Adrian Cox, Ask Jeeves UK CEO, said that the move was in response to the fact that the balance of its revenue had shifted towards paid placement, and it had been considering the cuts for some time.

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