Ask.com acquires Dictionary.com, other references

May 15, 2008 By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Business Writer

(AP) -- Ask.com has bought a stable of Internet reference sites that includes Dictionary.com in its latest effort to distinguish itself from online search leader Google Inc. and other much larger rivals.

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