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"This place was buzzing today that there will be layoffs here soon," an Ask.com employee tips us off. The tipster complains that since completing "a bunch of tests for new ways to make money, no one in my group has seen or heard from management [since] they had a pizza lunch the first week of January." It's the second Ask layoff rumor we've heard this month.
Earlier, a tipster told us to expect a "big shakeup at Ask.com," including "change in product lineup and company direction." Even more recently, we overheard an exec from an IAC subsidiary complain about typical Barry Diller stinginess. "We're not getting the kind of investment we want from IAC," this exec said. "They're cheap."
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Ask.com doesn't have a revenue model except to collect the monthly check from Google --- an absolutely ghastly way to run a business. Reality is a bitch. Without any proprietary revenue model Ask.com will begin to decline and people will begin to flee. I heard that they are about to shut down their maps/local product and begin using Google's stuff. Ask.com is a fake search engine only in business to drive clicks to Google AdWords.
I honestly thought it had been turned into a domain squatter site by now. Does anyone not jazzed by Diller's Millions even know it exists?
Begin to decline? I was unaware that they were in a position of such prominence from which to fall.
I like Barry, but I don't think I've ever got a desireable search result from ask.com... Ever!
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