• Dictionary.com (estimated 22.1m visitors in March)
• Thesaurus.com
• Reference.com

Unfortunately the terms of the deal, aren’t being disclosed. Associated Press is reporting that Jim Safka (who runs Ask for for IAC / InterActiveCorp) said that “more than 30 percent of the search requests entered on Ask are seeking reference material.”

What’s my take on this? Well, how do you compete when your fifth place, and have somewhere between 2% - 4% of the market? Go and buy a heap of key premium domain names, develop them and then link them all up!

So how far will Ask go? Should Wikipedia be concerned? Didn’t this type of strategy fail for AOL back in the early 90’s? Hey kids, lets go make our own Internets - go get those tubes over there….