The corporation IAC Search & Media (formerly Ask Jeeves, Inc.) is a wholly-owned business of IAC/InterActiveCorp (NASDAQ symbol: IACI). ^[1] 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. ^[2]

IAC Search and Media provides worldwide information retrieval products through a set of Web sites, portals and downloadable applications. IAC Search and Media's search-based portal brands include:

• Ask.com
• AskforKids.com
• Bloglines.com
• Evite.com
• Excite.com
• FunWebProducts.com
• IWon.com
• MyWay.com
• Zwinky

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:

• MyWay Searchbar, also known as MyWay Speedbar, MyWay Search Assistant, MyWebSearch or MyWeb Searchbar
• Ask.com Toolbar

[edit] Notes

1. ^ "IAC Search & Media: Company Overview" (company website), IAC Search & Media, 2006, webpage: IAC-Company-Overview.
2. ^ "IAC Search & Media: Fact Sheet" (corporate profile), IAC Search & Media, 2006, webpage: IAC-Company-Fact-Sheet.

[edit] External links

• SiteAdvisor's report on Ask.com.
• SiteAdvisor's report on Bloglines.com.
• SiteAdvisor's report on Evite.com.
• SiteAdvisor's report on Excite.com.
• SiteAdvisor's report on FunWebProducts.com.
• SiteAdvisor's report on IWon.com.
• SiteAdvisor's report on MyWay.com.
• SiteAdvisor's report on Zwinky.

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