Ask Jeeves buying Bloglines?

February 7, 2005 1:35 PM

The E Commerce Times is reporting that Ask Jeeves may be trying to purchase Bloglines.
posted by lobstah (6 comments total)

Google news was on this earlier, and since your link wasnt working for me I give you this.
Apparently the story was first posted on Mary Hodder's blog, napsterization.

Looks like a sad attempt by a second rate search engine to get a peice of the pie. AskJeeves has not confirmed the sale yet, but it looks imminent.
posted by sophist at 3:15 PM on February 7, 2005

I love the comment on the napsterization blog: $0 + $0 = $0

heh.
posted by mathowie at 5:22 PM on February 7, 2005

AskJeeves is still around? "What do you get when you mix a stupid gimmick with a bad search engine?"
posted by Arch Stanton at 9:00 PM on February 7, 2005

> Ask Jeeves owns a variety of popular web destinations including ask.com, ask.co.uk, ajkids.com, teoma.com, excite.com, myway.com, iwon.com, and several others. The combined traffic to its properties places Ask Jeeves in the top ten parent web companies in the US, as rated by both comScore and Nielsen//NetRatings in September 2004.

Of course, they picked up a lot of those at fire-sale prices, but you have to admire them for avoiding a fire sale themselves.

Last year AJ also bought a desktop search company.
posted by dhartung at 10:14 PM on February 7, 2005

Jeeves, second rate? At least he doesn't tell me my words are "very common". The nerve...
posted by Jack Karaoke at 11:52 PM on February 7, 2005

Hmm. Maybe it's time to invoke the "For non-commercial use only" copyright thing on my many RSS feeds and tell AskBloglines to stop carrying them.

I like Bloglines, use it to follow MeFi, but I'm starting to get that icky feeling that it will turn crappy.


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Dang.
posted by Ayn Marx at 10:21 AM on February 8, 2005