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AOL Befriends The Blogosphere With Buyout of Sphere

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AOL has paid an undisclosed amount for San Francisco-based Sphere. Sphere operates as a blog search engine that helps users to discover blog posts on defined topic. You get customizable time frames, related mainstream media, books, photos, and podcasts, and profiles and stats for each blog listed.

Sphere says that 70K sites are using it including some large sites like Newsweek, Salon, CBS, and Washington Post. Sphere issues a quarterly report recently where they indicated that they served 455M monetizeable page-views, +50.1% vs. Q4, 2007.

Sphere was founded in 2005 by CEO Tony Conrad who is a venture partner at True Ventures. Investors were Trident Capital, Radar Partners , True Ventures, Hearst Interactive, Blacksmith, Phil Black, Will Hearst, David Mahoney, Mike Winton, Scott Kurnit, Vince Vannelli, and Adaptive Path.

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