[sabat]

Who realized that Ask.com was successful enough to buy someone else for $300M? Wow.

[maayank]

It's IAC, owners of ask.com, match.com, okcupid.com, Vimeo. Who knows how they structured this deal.

[tg3]

According to their most recent 10Q [1], IAC's "Search and Applications" segment (which I'm guessing is mostly Ask.com) had $74M in Operating Income on $350M in Revenue for April - June, 2012.

[1] http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/viewer?action=view&cik=891103...

[freehunter]

I actually thought the other way around, I figured About.com was worth more than 1/3 of an Instagram.

[Achshar]

Instagram was paid in cash and stock whose value is now lower that what it was at the time of sale. This deal however is cash. So the comparison is not very simple.

[sp332]

At the time it was worth $1B total, regardless of how it has depreciated since. Anyway it's still more than 2x what About.com went for.

[temuze]

Right? These are the same guys who had an XSS vulnerability in their freaking search bar a year ago!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2930363

[arunoda]

Me too. I haven't heard about anything about Ask.com recently.