{"id":119,"date":"2005-05-08T10:37:03","date_gmt":"2005-05-08T10:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=119"},"modified":"2005-05-08T10:37:03","modified_gmt":"2005-05-08T10:37:03","slug":"blogshares-still-doesnt-take-bloglines-popularity-into-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"blogshares still doesn’t take bloglines popularity into account"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m just blog tired here \ud83d\ude00<\/b>. Just looking at blogshares<\/a> again. I’m slightly p*ssed off with the inaccuracies in it’s valuation of my blog. I find it ridiculous that given the numbers of people that use the bloglines<\/a> blog aggregator that the blogshares spiders can’t bypass the single level of indirection implied by their javascript blogroll<\/i>. It’s a real pain in the ass as I’m damned if I’m going to do any server-side scripting to dynamically embed my roll<\/i> in the page. Bloglines was recently acquired by AskJeeves<\/a> which also owns the teoma <\/a> patented thematic search technology. The idea appears to be the creation of a search engine that is capable of thematically searching and grouping a massive database of RSS blog and news feeds. Which is a pretty nice idea in my opinion<\/b>. I wish them luck.<\/p>\n


\nHere’s part of the press release…<\/p>\n


\n\u201cBloglines 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,\u201d said Jim Lanzone, Ask Jeeves\u2019 senior vice president of search properties. \u201cBloglines 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.\u201d
\nFounded in 2003, Bloglines is a pioneer in bringing RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds and rich content to mainstream Internet users. Recognized as the leader in its category in terms of traffic, feature richness and ease of use, Bloglines indexes more than 280 million live web content elements\u2014news feed and blog articles, images, audio and video\u2014and is available in English, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish. Bloglines has been touted for excellence around the world with many awards and accolades, including Time Magazine\u2019s 50 Coolest Websites for 2004.
\n\u201cBloglines became so popular because it was one of the first Web services to make blog and RSS feed reading free and easy to understand for average Internet users. We want to continue this quest to bring our exciting capabilities into the mainstream,\u201d said Mark Fletcher, CEO of Bloglines. \u201cBy joining forces with Ask Jeeves, we will be able to accelerate our growth with access to the millions of unique visitors to Ask Jeeves\u2019 properties. And we are eager to take advantage of Ask Jeeves\u2019 support, extensive resources, operational scale and innovative technologies to expand and improve the services we deliver to users.\u201d Fletcher will join Ask Jeeves as vice president and general manager of Bloglines.
\nThe acquisition brings together complementary technology assets, including Bloglines\u2019 leading RSS aggregation capabilities and Ask Jeeves\u2019 world-class Teoma algorithmic search technology. Ask Jeeves plans to leverage these technologies across its search and portal brands, and as of today, Bloglines Web search capability will be powered by Ask Jeeves search technology.
\n\u201cThe Ask Jeeves search advantage is based on world-class technical innovation and a user-centric approach,\u201d continued Lanzone. \u201cIt is exciting to have the opportunity to connect Bloglines\u2019 live information flow and blog search capabilities with our unique indexing technology to provide consumers with one of the most comprehensive and personal web experiences across all sources\u2014from the desktop to the Internet and, now, into the blogosphere.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m just blog tired here \ud83d\ude00. Just looking at blogshares again. I’m slightly p*ssed off with the inaccuracies in it’s valuation of my blog. I find it ridiculous that given the numbers of people that use the bloglines blog aggregator that the blogshares spiders can’t bypass the single level of indirection implied by their javascript […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}