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AskJeeves Steps Into RSS with Bloglines Acquisiton
Sugarpimp writes "According to several sources, AskJeeves has stepped into the deep end of the blogging pool with an interesting acquisition. Bloglines is one of the premier RSS readers. Perhaps AskJeeves will be able to legitimize itself again in the crowded search market by integrating Bloglines into its suite of products."
Dear Bloglines Member:
Ask Jeeves has acquired Bloglines, and we're excited about becoming the newest member of their portfolio of web services. We view this as a huge step forward for Bloglines, and a chance to achieve our mission of making RSS news reading and blogging a part of everyone's internet experience. You can learn more about the transaction by reading our press release or reviewing our Frequently Asked Questions.
We want to assure you that the Bloglines service will continue to grow and thrive. Like other companies in the Ask Jeeves portfolio, we will operate as a standalone, separate service -- the Bloglines name will remain, as will our URL, www.bloglines.com. We will support our current features and services, so please continue to log in to Bloglines to search, subscribe, publish and share RSS news feeds and blogs. All users will continue to be governed by the Terms of Service you agreed to when you registered for Bloglines.
We have a great roadmap on how to integrate some of the many innovative technologies of Ask Jeeves, including its Teoma algorithmic search technology. As always, we will share news of our progress on our blog, Bloglines News. And we encourage you to participate in the conversation. Our users have been amazing help in guiding the evolution of Bloglines, and we hope you will continue to give us input so we can remain the gold standard in blogging, search, and news aggregation.
We understand you may have questions about the acquisition and we'll try to answer them all as best we can. Please continue to contact our customer service with your questions and comments.
Thanks for your loyalty, patience, encouragement and feedback throughout this exciting process.
All the best,
Mark Fletcher and the Bloglines Team
Heres the official confirmtation
Uh...bloglines if just the title. If you RTFA at all, you know that BlogLines is simply (though quite handily) a service for reading your daily RSS feeds. I mean, really, who's gonna use it to publish anything? Or search? I go through dozens of headlines a day with this service. Don't knock it just because they originally bought the domain with weblogs as their primary function. Give them credit for moving so well into this rocking new age of informational RSS feeds.
Bloglines have confirmed it.
Announcement page
Press release
FAQ about acquisition
TechSutra
http://blog.ask.com/2005/02/welcome_bloglin.html
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Smells like FUD to me. A lot of people posting about how horrid Jeeves is, yet nobody yet stating why? Have you actually compared query results? These days I've found Jeeves results to be around equivalent to Google, and quite often more relevant since it is much less a target to spammers.
Compare this to Yahoo and MSN results... (bad and abysmal, respectively) This leaves me using both Jeeves and Google about equally, but more and more I use Jeeves due to better results. If you want search only without any of the extra "smart answers" - you could also just use their backend via teoma.com.
If you really wanna trash Jeeves, at least give us a real basis to do so. Me personally, I greatly dislike the Jeeves frame that stays up by default when you search (though this is easily turned off anyways, permanently if you wish).
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Like the others said, it doesn't have to be, unless you're wanting it for security reasons, or if you're using an old LILO that doesn't understand LBA and can't boot from a file higher than 1024 cylinders into the drive, in which case having a small partition at the beginning of the drive is a great idea.