Ask added links to its privacy policy on its front page. It bought Lexico, which runs Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com. The source for map and satellite data for both Ask Maps & Directions and AskCity is now Microsoft Virtual Earth. With this switch, some search features disappeared, such as the search-enabled drawing tools and the ZIP code business search. Exalead has updated its desktop search program, one:desktop, to version 4.6. New features include a rich preview of most documents, right column personalization tools for refining results including an optional tag cloud display, and tabbed integration with Exalead web, image, video, and Wikipedia search. Flash Earth, the search switcher for several sources of satellite imagery, has dropped Google maps (at Google's request) from its data sources. It continues to have Microsoft Virtual Earth, Yahoo!, NASA, OpenLayers, and Ask.
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