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Ask Jeeves if it'll buy Bloglines

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Search engine Ask Jeeves is planning to buy Bloglines, the leading RSS aggregator, and integrate its technology into its search system, according to unconfirmed reports.

Napsterization, a media blog, reports that Bloglines technolgy will go live on the main site today (6 February) prior to Ask Jeeves announcing the acquisition of Bloglines on Tuesday (7 February).

Ask Jeeves recently introduced introduced the option of searching the blogs using Bloglines. ®

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