[bsimpson]

I only know them as a consumer, but IAC is truly one of the most scourge-of-the-earth companies. They're retreating to publish People Magazine now, but they monopolized concert tickets as Ticketmaster, and online dating as a rollup of every mainstream app in the last 20y. They also bought CollegeHumor and drove it into the ground/irrelevance.

They're a terrible company. It's no surprise that AskJeeves failed, but society is better for it.

[UltraSane]

It takes some real skill to destroy a site with as much talent as CollegeHumor had

[IG_Semmelweiss]

i believe they also bought vimeo and livestream.com, and proceeded to miss the boat where Youtube took off.

[bonzini]

Vimeo was bought by Bending Spoons.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45197302

[dchest]

That was after IAC:

"Additional acquisitions in 2006 included ShoeBuy.com,[46] which the company later sold to Jet,[47] and Connected Ventures including CollegeHumor and Vimeo".

[bsimpson]

Vimeo was part of CollegeHumor.