So in conjunction with Yahoo's moves into the VOIP realm with the acquisition of Dialpad, which is is a little bit of a different direction than the supposed rumor about them going after Skype, is the fact they have now acquired the blo.gs tracking service.

Blo.gs is similar to some of the other weblog tracking services, and in their own words are…

this is a directory of recently updated weblogs and tools for tracking interesting weblogs, in the spirit of services like weblogs.com and blogrolling.com.

This is a very similar move to what AskJeeves.com did with the acquisition of Bloglines, and Bloglines recent announcement of their move to launch a Blogging / RSS search engine similar to Pubsub.com or Technorati.com

I predicted in my article covering the Ask Jeeves acquisition that their move was a sign that the lines between RSS/Blog search, and traditional web based search will blur.. It's great to see that when it comes to predictions, you can't always be wrong

I wonder what the next moves for Microsoft and Google will be to incorporate Blog/RSS dedicated search functionality?