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AskJeeves Steps Into RSS with Bloglines Acquisiton

Posted by timothy on from the almost-but-not-completely-unlike-tea dept.

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."

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  1. I wish a search engine would read my mind... by ABeowulfCluster · · Score: 5, Interesting

    as in knowing my preferences... ie.. remember that I prefer NO BLOGS when I search for news.

    1. Re:I wish a search engine would read my mind... by JanneM · · Score: 2, Interesting

      On the contrary, I really do want blogs to be included.

      It means someone else has already thought about whatever I'm searching for and taken some time and effort to collect links and write it up. The blogs that get ranked highly for a search are much linked to, and relevant to the search, which will tend to mean the writeup is not bad. If I search for a technical subject, more often than not the blogs I find will end up being written by the very people who create or work with the technology in question. I tend to find much better answers there than in general informational sites.

      Same thing goes for getting hits from mailing list archives, by the way.

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    2. Re:I wish a search engine would read my mind... by 16K+Ram+Pack · · Score: 2, Interesting
      I can't believe how many people are banging on about blogging, like it's something completely amazing and new.

      8 years ago, there were millions of personal web sites, full of people's top 10 trek episodes. Now, I see an entry on somewhere like Boing Boing or Slashdot, and within 2 hours, it's on someone else's blog. No comment about it, no enhancement, just copy it. I think most blogging will be dead in a year or 2.

      If you are going to blog, try and follow the golden rule - make some content, or express an opinion that someone might want to read.

  2. Ask Who? by nate+nice · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Remeber when they had the highest IPO ever! It skyrocketed from like $5.00 to $130 in one day! Holy shit it must have been exciting working there at first assuming they gave away stock like everyone else. Anyone know what's it at now days? My guess is about $3.50. Maybe $5.00 but it cannot be anymore than that.

    Man, I totaly forgot that place existed. Does anyone actually use it?

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  3. Re:Err by britneys+9th+husband · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Not only are they still around, but their market cap is one point four two billion dollars. That's over twice the market value of Netflix.

    It's also over 10 times as much market value as VA Software. Which do you think is more likely to still be around in, say, 2015 -- Slashdot, or Ask Jeeves?

    Too bad short selling is so risky...

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  4. Intrigues by Sundroid · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Ambitious man, that Jeeves. According to a CNET report, About.com is now up for sale, and Ask Jeeves is one of the bidders. The intriguing element here is that Google is also one of the bidders, of About.com, that is. Here is the link to the article: http://news.com.com/Primedia%20puts%20About.com%20 up%20for%20sale/2100-1025_3-5566950.html?tag=nefd. top

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  5. Information OD? by womanfiend · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I run about ten RSS feeds on my Firefox browser that run the day's headlines and whatnot from leading news outlets and niche content providers of interest to me.

    I've tried some Blog RSS feeds, along with some other very-high-output feeds, and it strikes me as too damned much. RSS is great for something like Slashdot or The New York Times where there's an editor on the other end to hold back the content delivered to a sane amount, but the architecture (as in "really simply") of RSS, while certainly sufficently robust, just isn't well designed for a high volume of hits per feed. I feel like I've immediately OD'ed, badly, on information when I pull down the home feed for PRWeb.

    The solution? I shitcanned the PRWeb feed, even though I spend a lot of time on their website. And that's the fix, right there. Continuing upon the example, PRWeb's homepage is much better suited to sifting through the zillions of things they update all of the time than an RSS feed. Might the same apply to bloglines?

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  6. Re:Step One by Frymaster · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Perhaps, this is step one in updating it's services. It's not nearly as effective as the other search engines.

    1. buy bloglines
    2. ???
    3. profit!

    i've got a question for jeeves: how the hell are you going to make money with this?

    just askin'.

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