Ask.com Loads Up on Reference Sites

Ask.com has acquired several major reference websites including Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com in its purchase of the Lexico Publishing Group LLC. This news comes 10 months after Answers.com agreed to buy the same company for $100 million in a deal that fell through.

The terms of the acquisition have yet to be disclosed. [via TheDomains.com]

Related posts:

• IAC Buys Minority Stake In HealthCentral Network
• Demand Media Purchases Pluck for $75 million
• Answers Corp. to Acquire Dictionary.com for $100 Million
• Cruises.co.uk Sells for $1.1 Million US
• Communicate.com Acquires Auctomatic and Changes Name to Live Current Media