Ask.com Launches Blog Search Engine

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Ask.com has introduced a new blog search engine http://www.ask.com/?o=0#subject:bls|pg:1

You can search by posts, feeds, or news.  A search for tuliptools returned 3,810 results.  The search has a rollover preview feature that allows you to preview the site without leaving the search results page. You can subscribe to feeds directly from the search page (bloglines, newsgator, yahoo, google, and rss). You can also post the search results to bloglines, digg, del.icio.us, and newsvine.

Article on the new search:

Ask.com is launching on Wednesday night a new blog search service that aims to capitalize on the fervent interest in the topics and debates covered by blogs that aren't easy to find on traditional online news sites.

Instead of crawling the Web for blog postings to build an index to search like others do, Ask.com is using the index already created and updated by subscribers to its popular Bloglines site for searching, subscribing to, creating and sharing blogs and news feeds.

"This will reduce (blog) spam significantly" and enable Ask.com to offer fresher blog search results than those offered by competitors,...

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