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:
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“Never before has a generation of parents faced such awesome competition with the mass media for their children’s attention. While parents tout the virtues of premarital virginity, drug-free living, nonviolent resolution of social conflict, or character over physical appearance, their values are daily challenged by television soaps, rock music lyrics, tabloid headlines, and movie scenes extolling the importance of physical appearance and conformity.”
—Marianne E. Neifert (20th century)