Blog Search Engine From Bloglines Still in the Works

Posted on February 27, 2006

A WebProNews.com article says that a Bloglines blog search engine is still in the works. The search engine was originally expected last summer. WebProNews.com writer Nathan Weinberg talked to Ask's GM Jim Lanzone at the Jeeves retirement party.

Jim explained there are a lot of big plans for Bloglines, which makes sense, since it is a hugely popular service that can drive people to use the rest of the Ask products. He said they were looking to bring Bloglines information to the front page, like a sidebar on the left side, for those who wanted to use that. He said that they were in middle of building a new blog search product, "all based on Bloglines".
Jim was asked about mobile search, and said that they are developing mobile search. He explained that one of the major problems with mobile search right now is that "Mobile search is very slow" right now, and that one of Ask's biggest focuses in developing their mobile search product is ensuring that it renders very quickly on mobile devices.

The article doesn't say when the Bloglines search engine will debut which is unfortunate since it is already several months overdue. Maybe Bloglines can afford to be patient since they have such a huge index of feed entries -- over 1,203,736,942 article indexed according to the site.