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The price of Ask.com stock soared more than 500% throughout the course of the year. In July 2005, ASKJ ticker was retired upon the closing of the acquisition by IAC/InterActiveCorp. IAC/InterActiveCorp trades on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol IACI. The IAC/InterActiveCorp deal was announced in March 2005 valuing ASKJ at $1.85 billion. IAC/InterActiveCorp is a media holding company founded and run by Barry Diller.The Teoma technology also incorporates patented click popularity techniques, originally from the DirectHit search engine, which Ask Jeeves acquired in 2000. On 26 February 2006 Teoma was rebranded and redirected to Ask.com
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