Ask.com to buy Dictionary.com owner

Courtesy CNET Tech blog  Wed, 05/14/2008 - 11:00pm

Ask.com, the fourth-ranked search engine, plans to increase its heft through an agreement to acquire Lexico Publishing Group, which operates the Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com Web sites.

Ask.com didn't release terms of the acquisition, but Lexico is "highly profitable, with high double-digit growth for ...



 

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