Well a new search engine called Blekko has been launched this week and hyped as a google Killer.Well in this post I will Dig deep into this search engine and will tell you is It Really a Google Killer or not.Well Blekko is a search engine launched by Rich Skrenta who is also the founder of a popular news aggregating website called Topix.The work on the Blekko search engine was started in 2007 and It was opened for some people in july2010 and now it has been publically luanched.
The results that appear in the blekko search engine are human edited.Before I dig deep into this engine You Should see the video of the search engine by Rich Skrenta himself.
Ok as you might have seen that the whole concept behind this search engine is use of slashtags.For example if you want to search ‘Paris Hilton /noporn’ then porn sites will be weeded out of your results.It is created to weed out all the spam websites.It will show only the trusted websites and will leave out the sites that have no or low content value.
Blekko provides a list of slashtags that can be used or you can create your own slashtags.You just have to login into blekko name your slashtag and upload a list of websites for that particular slashtag.Now whrnever you will use that slashtag the result will be shown from the list of uploaded sites.You can access blekko’s slashtagshere.
You also have the ability to make your slashtags public or private.What I have found that the results by usingslashtags are not as accurate as they should be.If we compare Google and blekko’s Search results then certainly google is better but what i have found in blekko is that the amount of spam is comparatively less inblekko.
Moreover google also provides the ability to search according to your preferences similar to the use of slashtags.You can Read my post on Google Advanced Search for that.
Blekko has taken one step forward then google in terms of openess.By openness we mean that now you can see that according to what criterion a site is ranking for a certain keyword.You can see the criteria by using the following search “Your Query here” /rank .Also you will see a Seo button in from of every search result website while doing normal search in blekko which provide information like inbound links,crawl stats,geographicdistribution and other information about the website.
My overall judgment is that though it is good innovative idea but it stills lacks the accuracy to beat google.Only Google can beat google with each new version.
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