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[TechCrunch] According to a post from Greg Gershman on the BlogDigger blog, Blogdigger's aggregation and search technology has been integrated into Odeo's new beta site. Gershman has joined the Odeo team as Vice President of Search and Engineering.

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[Read/WriteWeb News] Exclusive: Blogdigger Acquired by Odeo: The digital media part of its business is what, in the end, differentiated Blogdigger from the crowd. It's worth reading Greg's story in full, below, as it provides an informative glimpse into how a small, unfunded startup has battled through 5 years and finally had a successful conclusion (well, we hope the price paid can be deemed a success).

[Small Business Conversations by Network Solutions] Interview with Greg Gershman of ODEO | Small Business ...: I wanted to progress beyond that and working with Odeo was a good opportunity for me to see Blogdigger off in a nice way and take what I had learned and apply it in a broader context. The technology and the experience that I had gained by building Blogdigger was a nice fit with what Odeo was looking for at the time, so the acquisition seemed like a logical direction to take.

[Oatmeal Stout - Justin Thorp's Web 2.0 blog] Congrats to Blogdigger & Greg Gershman for Getting Acquired by Odeo: Congrats to Washington DC-area entrepreneur Greg Gershman on the acquisition of his company Blogdigger by Odeo. The folks at Odeo are really cool and Greg is crazy smart.

[Fresh Podcasts] Comment by Greg Gershman on March 19, 2008: Congrats to Blogdigger & Greg Gershman for Getting Acquired by Odeo: Congrats to Washington DC-area entrepreneur Greg Gershman on the acquisition of his company Blogdigger by Odeo.

[Blogcosm] Odeo acquires Blogdigger; will blog search get better?: The focus of this acquisition is on the new Odeo; we hope to be able to improve Blogdigger, it does have revenues and traffic, but the technology was directly applicable to the new Odeo and that is what drove the acquisition.

[Pro Blogging News] Blogdigger Acquired By Odeo: Blogdigger, one of the first rss search engines, is being acquired by podcast network Odeo. Although financial terms of the deal were undisclosed, CEO Greg Gershman will become Odeo's search and engineering vice president.

[paidContent.org] Podcaster Odeo Acquires Blog Search Engine Blogdigger; Plans ...: Podcaster Odeo Acquires Blog Search Engine Blogdigger; Plans Broader Relaunch | paidContent

[mydigimedia by Amy L. Webb] Odeo Acquires blogdigger: Congrats to my local pal Greg Gershman, whose blogdigger has been acquired by Odeo. Greg launched blogdigger in 2003 and developed, along with a friend, all of the code that aggregated and sorted blogs around the world.

[Puzzlepieces] Blogdigger Dev Blog: Blogdigger Acquired by Odeo: Greg later incorporated BlogDigger, but didn’t take quite the same route. I became online friends with them all to varying degrees, got to intern at Feedster in 2005, and also met Greg during that time.

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