Ask.com, a unit of IAC/InterActiveCorp, just bought Ask.fm, a popular question-and-answer site. “The move signals Ask.com’s first significant push into social networking,” according
to The New York Times’ Bits blog. “After years of trying and failing to compete against Google in search, Ask.com turned to become more of a Q and A site for the Web, similar to Yahoo
Answers or, more recently, the once-buzzy Quora, a Silicon Valley start-up.”
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