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Blogs were a buzz on Friday after speculation surfaced that IAC/InterActiveCorp (Ask.com’s parent company) were planning on dumping Teoma, the Ask.com’s search engine, in favor of Google’s search results. The rumors first appeared via Peter Kafka’s post on Silicon Valley Insider, where he shared this comment from an apparent “insider”:
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There is indeed a big shakeup coming. A new Ask. Some think a reduction in workforce is likely. There are no sacred cows, Teoma may be sold or simply abandoned which is hundreds of engineers who work on the core search engine, in place of just using Google’s search with our special brand of user interface.
With the rumors believed to be the cause of a 7% decline in IAC’s share price on Friday, the search world waited with bated breath for confirmation from the IAC ranks on the speculation.
Alas, it was not forthcoming. In fact, the opposite happened, with a source close to the matter reporting to Reuters that the blog report was “incorrect”.
Silicon Valley Insider was quick with their “right of reply” suggesting that if the rumors were incorrect, that Ask.com should consider dumping Teoma nonetheless. And given that the all speculation thus far has been from undisclosed “sources”, SVI added the following quip to their update post:
Not clear whether IAC has finally reached a decision on Teoma or whether our source has fresher information (or is hallucinating).
Given the time and money Ask.com has invested in its search technology, it would be a surprising move to dump Teoma now. That said, all Ask’s re-engineering and marketing still hasn’t bridged the gap between the former Search Engine Butler and Google.
Perhaps it’s a case of cutting costs - and conceding “if you can’t beat em, join em”.
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Rumors are rife that Ask could be considering handing over its search operations to Google and consequently downsizing it’s engineering team, reports Silicon Alley Insider. Ask might be thinking about abandoning or selling its Teoma search engine in favor of Google, There is indeed a big shakeup coming.
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A new Ask. Some think a reduction in workforce is likely, informs an unnamed inside source. There are no sacred cows, Teoma may be sold or simply abandoned which is hundreds of engineers who work on the core search engine, in place of just using Google’s search with our special brand of user interface.
There is projection of a big shakeup coming up. If the rumor does turn out to be true and Ask does go ahead with the changes, then a downsizing measure could make about a 100 layoffs inevitable. The layoffs are predicted for April and there aren’t any sacred cows as well.
This fallout could be a bad one for Ask’s engineers, but perhaps good news for IAC. One of the favorite public statements of Barry Diller, CEO, IAC, is, while Ask has a great technology, it has done a bad job of marketing it. Ask and others like Yahoo have spent quite a lot of money to catch up with Goliath Google, but in vain. Ask’s shareholders being a witness to these developments would have thought it to be best if Ask had taken this step much earlier.
Recently, Ask has seen some good growth in the number of people querying the engine, see: Ask.com Grows 20% In January.
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