Microsoft Selling Ask.com Advertising
Microsoft’s AdManager beta advertising service, part of Office Live, will begin selling advertising for Ask.com. Users of AdManager will be able to purchase Ask.com search ads and Live.com search ads, bringing two of the top five search engines (numbers three and four, most of the time) under the same roof for the first time in years. According to ComScore’s recent numbers, the two combine to reach 18.2% of the search engine audience, over 1.5 billion search queries performed per month.
So Microsoft is buying Ask.com? I thought Ask.com uses the Google algorithm. If they do buy it, that would be kind of interesting. Ask.com has a pretty good search matrix. They do universal search which is kind of cool.
Comment by Michael | July 17, 2007