February 12, 2005

Ask Jeeves to develop browser from Mozilla?

by brian_turner

While rumour and speculation concerning a Google browser remains rife, Ask Jeeves have unexpectedly announced that they, too, are looking to develop a Jeeves browser based on Mozilla foundations.

Posted in Mozilla’s On Fire on the Ask blog, developer Tuoc Luong explains how he discussed three specific issues with the Mozilla foundation:

1) Open-source development of Ask desktop search
2) Development of Ask browser
3) Application of Ask’s Octopus software in conjunction with Mozilla’s use of the XUL platform.

This marks a continued period of aggression by Ask Jeeves in the search market, after also recently announcing the acquisition of bloglines, which is the world’s most popular RSS feed aggregator.

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