The unsettling winds of change are being felt by Ask.com staff, as parent company IAC has announced some serious changes coming up. Among the options talked about in higher circles are completely selling off or abandoning the current search technology and outsourcing it to Google.

Were Ask.com a bit bigger in the search market, Microsoft would have been mighty interested in it, but the few percentages it would add by taking it over would not give the Redmond-based giant nearly the boost need...