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Date Added: May 15, 2008 11:16:03 PM
Ask.com, the flagging online search destination, has acquired Lexico Publishing Group, an Internet media company that owns Thesaurus.com and Reference.com. It also purchased philologist-friendly site Dictionary.com (which you can use to figure out the meaning of that word). Ask.com hopes this will rebrand itself as an Internet specialist in answering questions instead of providing blanket search ...

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