Ask.com debuts Blog and Feed Search
According to the news, Ask.com is wading into the blogosphere after Google, Ice Rocket, Sphere, Technorati and Yahoo.
On Thursday, the Oakland, Calif.-based search site plans to add a Blogs & Feeds tab to its Internet search tools menu and to more thoroughly integrate its search engine with its online news aggregation site, Bloglines.
Daniel Read, Ask.com’s VP of consumer products and user experience said:
The reason we’re getting into blog search is it’s the fastest growing content type on the Web.
Ask Blogs & Feeds Search lets users query three different categories:
- blog posts,
- RSS feeds, and
- a selection of around 7,000 news sources
Also, it allows queries to be sorted using additional criteria including date, popularity, or a combination of the two. This can be particularly useful for locating recent blog posts.
Ask Blogs & Feeds Search relies on another measure of collective wisdom to identify relevant blog posts–the subscription data submitted by the hundreds of thousands of Bloglines users.
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on July 26th, 2006 at 5:45 am
Many of these kinds of sites often run ads provided by Google or Yahoo, or both in an effort to profit from some other person’s hard work.