Ask Jeeves gets Bloglines
p2pnet.net News:- Ask Jeeves says it’s acquired Trustic, the company that owns and operates Bloglines, which will continue to operate as an, “independent brand”.
Bloglines indexes more than 280 million live web content elements – news feed and blog articles, images, audio and video – and is available in English, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish, says the new owner, going on that the deal brings together technology assets including Bloglines’ RSS aggregation capabilities and Ask Jeeves’ Teoma algorithmic search technology.
It’ll retain its name and url.
“Ask Jeeves plans to leverage these technologies across its search and portal brands, and as of today, Bloglines’ Web search capability will be powered by Ask Jeeves’ search technology,” says Ask Jeeves.
Financial terms weren’t disclosed.
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independent brand – Ask Jeeves Acquires Bloglines, Ask Jeeves, February 8, 2005





