Ask.com decides to tailor its reach, abandon Google competition
 

Ask.com, after facing a long struggle with other search engines, this week announced it will stop trying to directly compete in that market and instead create a niche search portal for married women.

Ask.com will lay off 40 employees, about eight percent of its workforce, as it re-positions itself. It will create a new site that will be specially focused on middle-aged, married women from the South and Midwest.

*Source: TG Daily (http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/36340/113/)*

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