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MSN News: Why Ask.Com's CEO Left to Join Microsoft (RedNova)

By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Jan. 14--The accolades for the new CEO of Ask.com, the Oakland-based search engine formerly known as Ask Jeeves, were just beginning to roll in last spring when the call came from Redmond.

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