Ask.com Leaves General Search Market

I was blown away to learn that just this week that Ask.com announced that it would be narrowing its search engine to focus on topics for women in their late 30s and older, who already make up a disproportionate amount of Ask’s users. According to newly appointed CEO Jim Safka. (Summary at TechCrunch) Ask will lay off about 40 employees, or 8 percent of its work force.
With Yahoo and Microsoft continuing to duke it out over a potential takeover, it certainly seems like Google has even more room now to continue to balloon further into the unstoppable monster that it has become.