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Ask.com offers new Bloglines Blog search service

by Darren

Great news for fans of Bloglines. According to Techcrunch today, Ask.com is releasing a new blog search for their Bloglines.

This should produce some additional value for Bloglines, and it also helps establish Ask.com as more of a leader in search. It’s a chance for them to showcase technology in the blogosphere.

The search utility for now appears underwhelming. They appear to be pulling data from a limited universe of sites. However, it’s not bad for a start and they conveniently list related feeds at the right. I don’t think we’re breaking any ground here, but perhaps as Ask.com delves deeper into search, they’ll be able to improve upon their seach strategy. They’re big believers in using reputation system style ranking, so their results may at least look different than the others.

The best way for you to find out if you like this blog search is to use it. Give it a try and give feedback to Ask. The more competitors in the search space, the better, as far as I’m concerned. The more big companies out there promoting blog readership, and building tools to help people find blogs, the more likely your blog is to be found. We’ll see how Ask does in the blog search space.

What do you think of the new Bloglines search?