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 (http://napsterization.org/stories/archives/000397.html) 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 (http://ask.com) recently introduced introduced (http://blog.ask.com/) the option of searching the blogs using Bloglines (http://bloglines.com/search). ®

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