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Blekko, trademarked as blekko (lowercase), [1] was a company that provided a web search engine with the stated goal of providing better search results than those offered by Google Search, with results gathered from a set of 3 billion trusted webpages and excluding such sites as content farms.
- Slashing Web Search Into Special Topics
- Enter Auto-Slashing
- Auto-Slashing in Action
- Auto-Slashing & Humans
- A New Search Voice
- Can Blekko Find An Audience?
Slashtags, as my previous article explains, are a way that anyone can make a “vertical” search engine around any topic. For those not familiar with the term, a vertical search engine is one that lets you search in a specific area of interest, rather than across the “horizontal” spectrum of all interests. Google is a “horizontal” search engine that ...
What’s new since my last review is that Blekko is now automatically applying slashtags for searches in seven areas, even if you didn’t specifically request these. The areas are: 1. autos 2. colleges 3. health 4. hotels 5. lyrics 6. personal finance 7. recipes Why do this? Blekko told me earlier this month, when talking about the new feature, that i...
Does it work? When Blekko demoed a few examples with me, the results sometimes looked good. For example, Blekko highlights how a search for cure for headaches brings back matches from medical authority sites such as the US National Institutes Of Health or the UK’s National Health Service. In contrast, the same searchat Google has in its top results...
By the way, while anyone can create slashtags, those that get used for auto-slashing aren’t open for anyone to edit. Instead, Blekko’s own staff created and maintains them. Over time, Blekko plans to expand the number of auto-slashtags, and it wants to have a “volunteer army” that will be involved. Think Wikipedia meets search, Blekko says.
One of the most encouraging things about Blekko is that it brings back a much needed alternative “search voice” into the space. Every search engine has its own “voice,” its own particular set of results that comes from the unique mixture of pages that it collects and the recipe — called the search algorithm — that it uses to rank and display its es...
Of course, by no means do I expect Blekko to become a Google killer. Despite Google’s flaws, it works extremely well for millions of people each day. In contrast, Blekko faces long odds to get its name out there, not to mention the challenge of dealing with its own flaws. Blekko comes into a space that’s already seen many of the “historic” or “old ...
Jul 28, 2010 · New challenger Blekko is stepping into the fray, opening to limited beta testing today. It offers a compelling way to “slash the web” and put a particular spin on your search results. Blekko...
In the late 2000s, Skrenta headed the startup company Blekko Inc, which was an Internet search engine. [6] Blekko received early investment support from Marc Andreessen [ 7 ] and began public beta testing on November 1, 2010.
Nov 1, 2010 · Blekko is... automatically applying slashtags to improve results in seven initial search categories: health, colleges, autos, personal finance, lyrics, recipes and hotels.
Nov 1, 2010 · This, however, is the basis for Blekko, a new search engine that entered public beta today. Here's a video explaining how it works: blekko: how to slash the web from blekko on Vimeo.
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Nov 1, 2010 · Blekko co-founder Rich Skrenta and Marketing VP Mark Markson exchanged email with IDGNOW! Brazil about their plans and strategies -- and no, it's not another Google Killer. Topics
