Thanks to posted tips from Mary Hodder at the weekend, there were no great surprises today when Ask Jeeves announced it had bought out web-based feed-reading software Bloglines.
Ask Jeeves, a leading provider of information retrieval technologies, brands and Internet advertising services, today announced it has acquired Trustic, Inc., the company that owns and operates Bloglines.
Bloglines is the world's most popular free online service for searching, subscribing, publishing and sharing RSS feeds, blogs and rich web content. Bloglines will continue to operate as an independent brand in the Ask Jeeves portfolio and retain its name and unique URL.
"Bloglines is not only a market leader in feed aggregation and blog search, but it is truly one of the most useful and addictive services on the entire Web. We are excited about providing Bloglines with the resources to grow its service and help it reach a broader audience," said Jim Lanzone, Ask Jeeves' senior vice president of search properties. "Bloglines is a natural fit for our multi-brand portfolio, as we extend our information retrieval services to encompass the rapidly growing amount of dynamic content and information available in the blogosphere."
It's taken a while, but a few blogging entrepreneurs now seem to be fitting the mould of typical dotcommery - build your product, launch a small firm, get acquired by a big firm, make some money.
I'd just like it to be known that Onlineblog would gladly accept offers in the region of $10-20m.
We can all dream, eh?
