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Ask.com Acquires Dictionary.com

By Red Wolf

15 May 2008

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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

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Ask.com Acquires Dictionary.com

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