Diller content with being ‘Procter & Gamble of the Internet’

Don Day June 12th, 2007

IAC chairman Barry Diller was the focus of an extensive profile on 60 Minutes Sunday. Lesley Stahl took a long look at how Diller has built an Internet empire. With Ask.com as the centerpiece, IAC owns (deep breath): Match.com, Chemistry.com, Citysearch, HSN, ticketmaster, TicketWeb, evite, excite, College Humor, Lending Tree… and dozens of others. Stahl centered in on why Google is “sexy,” and IAC isn’t. “IAC is brand by brand by brand by brand,” Diller said. “We are an endlessly multi-product company. Endlessly. So, Google is Google. Googling. Googled. But here’s the thing: I’ll be quite happy to be kind of similar to Procter and Gamble, someday, which also nobody knows.”