It has been going around the blogosphere today that bloglines has been sold to AskJeeves. Although bloglines is my software of choice for RSS consumption, I had wondered about their business model moving forward. A merger seemed inevitable – I can only hope that the integration doesn’t ruin what I consider to be one of the best free services availabile on the Web.

Now that AskJeeves has aquired Bloglines, I await a response from Google, Microsoft and Yahoo.