...or the IAC - well until now.

Ask.com spokesman and VP, Nicholas Graham has been vigilantly watching all the speculation and putting out the spot fires that blog rumors have created. He even popped over to our post on Ask.com's plans for Teoma last week.

Needless to say he's been a busy man.

In the fallout of some recent layoffs and obvious cost cutting, Graham has gone out and finally shared Ask.com's plans and re-aligned focus.

According to an Interview with Jordan McCollum from WebProNews, Graham has this to say:

"The idea that we're going to become a 'women's site' is not correct...

...what we've found from our research is that there's a sizeable group of our core user base that is women. This core audience comes for certain types of searches, certain categories-reference (dictionary, thesaurus, etc.), health and entertainment. Our new strategy is to focus on building up our ability to render good answers in those categories for our core audience...

...the idea that we're not going to be a search engine anymore is not correct. We'll continue to cater to all sorts of people who come to search... We'll continue to be a great search engine, but a great search engine with a new focus."

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