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Ask.com Buys Answers With Dictionary.com Acquisition - Read More

Date Added: May 16, 2008 12:16:02 AM
Ask.com has bought a stable of Internet reference sites that includes Dictionary.com in its latest effort to distinguish itself from online search leader Google and other much larger rivals. Besides Dictionary.com, Ask is picking up Thesaurus.com and Reference.com in its acquisition of Lexico Publishing Group.

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