The corporation IAC Search & Media (formerly Ask Jeeves, Inc.) is a wholly owned business of IAC/InterActiveCorp (NASDAQ symbol: IACI). 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, Chief technical officer and veteran software developer, and by Garrett Gruener, a venture capitalist at Alta Partners and the founder of Virtual Microsystems.
IAC Search and Media provides worldwide information and retrieval products and advertising products through a set of Web sites, portals, downloadable applications and malware. IAC Search and Media's search-based portal brands include:
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- Ask.com
- AskforKids.com
- Bloglines.com
- Evite.com
- Excite.com
- FunWebProducts.com
- IWon.com
- MyWay.com
- Zwinky
- Searchqu - A well know malware
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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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- MyWay Searchbar, also known as MyWay Speedbar, MyWay Search Assistant, MyWebSearch or MyWeb Searchbar
- Ask.com Toolbar
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Famous quotes containing the words search and/or media:
“The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can’t help it—can’t help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.”
—Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)
“The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity—much less dissent.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)