AskJeeves Blog Busts Through

Like other blogs before it, AskJeeves has busted into the blogging arena. Erik Collier, Data Engineering Manager, has posted the first of many blog articles (blarticles?) giving a little history of AskJeeves and talking about the company’s recent move to downtown Oakland, California.

Included in the blarticle are photos of the new AskJeeves facility and surrounding area. The AskJeeves blog has a hip and informative feel about it and rivals the looks and feel of the Yahoo! blog while clearly outdoing the Google blog (which is odd since google own blogger.com but doesn’t appear to use it in their blog).

The Yahoo! blog has their own Erik as well as Erik Gunther, Yahoo! Buzz Index Editor weighs in on Sundance searching and even Google has their own form of Erik, though, spelled “Eric” as one blog entry says “Thanks, Eric!” for his contribution.

Also of note is that AskJeeves has joined in and uses the rel="nofollow" tag on their comments entries which the other big players have also recently implemented. This tag discourages blog spamming from hit and runners who like to seed their Viagra (or whatever) links all over the Internet.

Anyway, the AskJeeves blog is worth checking out and hopefully more information about the company and the products that are in the pipeline will follow.