Barry Diller Delivers the Black Search Engine You Haven’t Been Waiting For

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Barry Diller, the chairman and CEO of IAC, which owns Ask.com, Match.com, Evite, and College Humor, among many others, has just launched Rushmore Drive, a new online community geared toward blacks and centered around an “ethnic,” Ask.com-powered search engine that delivers both mainstream results and results targeted toward African Americans. “Every person is looking for a more relevant search result,” Johnny Taylor, head of IAC’s Black Web Enterprises Inc. unit and chief executive of RushmoreDrive.com, told the Charlotte Observer. “It recognizes who you are, so you can find what you’re looking for every time.”

Is that true? Just to test out that theory, and being of the core demographic, I searched some general terms on both Rushmore Drive and Ask.com to see how the first-page results differed.

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Apr 11, 2008 · Link · 1 Response
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No. 1 Michael Deaton says:

Holy crap, how anti-white can it get around this country these days? There certainly aren’t any “white search engines”. Let Donald Trump try to publish a white mag, or start a white version of BET. Blacks would go insane! THEN we would see the true meaning of hypocrisy!

Posted: Apr 14, 2008 at 3:54 pm
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