Blekko's Review
Blekko is a long anticipated search engine founded by two ex-Googlers, Rich Skrenta and his core management team up to 20 members. Blekko has finally been published to the public with beta 2 version. Besides, Blekko has raised three rounds of financing since then, totalling of $20 million (around RM65 million), from some of the most respected angel and venture investors in silicon valley. Moreover, Blekko is mainly search with slashtags to reduce some unwanted websites and the slashtags are the characteristic that make Blekko special or unique in searching information.
What is a slashtag?
Slashtag is a feature used to filter all of the search results in terms of spam, malware and contents farms. Therefore, it aids in searching high quality information and websites. Blekko also enables the users to create their own slashtag by clicking "Create a Slashtag" at the profile page. According to the statistic There is more than 100,000 slashtags had been created so far in Blekko.
One of the hottest topics that is spreading over the Internet - Is Blekko able to challenge worldwide popular search engines such as Google, Bing and Yahoo with its unique slashtags search? When Blekko was first demo, those behind the search engine made it clear that it was not out to kill Google. Rather Blekko claims to be concerned with allowing users to execute searches that you "can't do anywhere else", by focusing the slashtags that allow users to search from a particular perspective. They said, does Blekko fit into the search game? Is it a killer of Google, Bing and Yahoo, or is it a site that will compliment your search engine of choice? What follows is a brief introduction video to Blekko, a comparison of popular search terms when entered into the aforementioned search engines, including Blekko as well as culminating with our thoughts on Blekko's future.
blekko: how to slash the web from blekko on Vimeo.
Have you used Blekko yet? Feel free to test out Blekko search engine at http://www.blekko.com/ to find out more interesting things about Blekko. What do you like about it and what do you think Blekko is lacking?
Credit to:
Michael Arrington, TechCrunch Review: The Blekko Search Engine Prepares To Launch [Online], Retrieved 19th July 2010
Jeff Cormier, The TNW Review: Blekko - Is this finally a Google killer? [Online], Retrieved 1st Nov 2010
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