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Bloglines Tracks Half a Billion Blog Articles, Doubles Index Size
in Six Months
OAKLAND, Calif., June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Ask Jeeves(R), Inc. (NASDAQ:ASKJ)
today announced that Bloglines(TM) (http://www.bloglines.com/), the world's
most popular free online service for searching, subscribing, publishing and
sharing news feeds, blogs and rich web content, has set a new standard among
newsreaders: 500 million blog and news feed articles are now stored in the
service's comprehensive, searchable database.
Bloglines' milestone reflects the meteoric rise in popularity of blogs as a new
communication channel, the development of RSS-type technologies for content
syndication, and the creation of user-friendly newsreaders to simplify the
process of subscribing to blogs and news feeds of interest. Between January
and June of this year, the size of the Bloglines index doubled. And each day
Bloglines adds 2 million to 2.7 million new blog and news feed articles to the
database, drawn from a diverse range of sources in many languages -- from blogs
about knitting to major online newspaper feeds.
"The daily growth of blog and news feed articles is the most accurate measure
of the blogosphere's size and vitality," said Mark Fletcher, founder and now
general manager of Bloglines at Ask Jeeves. "Bloglines has the largest
database of blog and feed articles, the fastest growing index of dynamic web
content, and the broadest set of integrated features -- making us the strongest
blog resource on the Internet."
About Ask Jeeves, Inc.
As the 6th largest global web property (ComScore Media Metrix, March 2005), Ask
Jeeves Inc. delivers world-class information retrieval products through a
diverse portfolio of Web sites, portals and downloadable applications. Ask
Jeeves' search and search-based portal brands include: Ask Jeeves (Ask.com,
Ask.co.uk and es.Ask.com), the Ask Jeeves Japan joint venture (Ask.jp), Ask
Jeeves for Kids (AJKids.com), Bloglines (bloglines.com), Excite (excite.com),
iWon (iwon.com), My Way (myway.com) and Fun Web Products (funwebproducts.com).
Additionally, Ask Jeeves owns the differentiated search technology Teoma, as
well as natural language processing, portal and ad-serving technologies. Ask
Jeeves generates revenue from advertisers seeking to reach the company's
broad-based online audience. Founded in 1996, Ask Jeeves has been a publicly
traded company on the Nasdaq National Market since July 1999. Its headquarters
are located in Oakland, California, with offices throughout the United States,
as well as in Europe and Asia. For more information, visit http://www.ask.com/
or call 510-985-7400.
NOTE: Ask Jeeves and Bloglines are trademarks or registered trademarks of Ask
Jeeves, Inc.
DATASOURCE: Ask Jeeves, Inc.
CONTACT: Cathy Thompson of Bloglines at Ask Jeeves, +1-408-738-1395, or
Web site: http://www.ask.com/