Ask Jeeves Buys Trustic's Bloglines

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NEW YORK Ask Jeeves said it bought Trustic, owner of the Bloglines service for publishing and searching news-syndication feeds.

The purchase brings Ask Jeeves, an Oakland, Calif.-based search company, one of the leading providers of Really Simple Syndication (RSS) readers, which let users organize syndicated Web content like blog entries and news headlines. Bloglines, founded in 2003, also has an index of more than 280 million Web content elements, including news feeds, blog articles, video and audio.

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