Steve Rubel reports that BlogLines has big plans:

The CEO of Bloglines (now a division of AskJeeves) says that his company will release a blog search engine this summer which will surpass the likes of Technorati, Feedster, and PubSub. "The challenge," he says, "is to create world-class blog search, which we don't think exists now."

AskJeeves knew that direct competition with Google wasn't working out, and figured that a sidestep into a related field would be a better tack. Now let's see if they can be faster than PubSub, arguably the fastest search/match system for blogs out there right now.