Ask.com and Lycos signed a search union.

The Ask.com search engine and the Lycos portal, both quite popular in the United States, announced the signing of a contract, under which Ask.com will provide search capabilities, and will also display contextual advertising on the portal pages, reports Reuters .

Actually, the text search is now provided with Ask.com's power, as evidenced by the company logo next to the search bar. Image search is currently engaged in the PicSearch engine.