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Blekko has been trying to carve a niche for itself in the search engine world for a few years now, relatively successfully. Its claim to fame was easy filtering of results based on slashtags, special tags which restricted results to specific topics.
In the latest redesign, which has just gone live, Blekko takes that... |
29 May 2013
10:17 GMT |
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Apart from their obvious job of providing relevant results, search engines have an equally important one to protect their users from malware ridden sites. These sites may be purely malicious or they may be legitimate sites that have been infected.
Either way, they pose a danger to their visitors. All search engines ... |
12 April 2013
09:16 GMT |
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Blekko hasn't been able to take the search engine world by storm, but it does have its followers. Now, the team behind blekko have come up with a search engine app for tablets that's specifically designed for those devices. The app, izik, is available for iOS, Android and as a mobile web version.
The firs... |
4 January 2013
12:31 GMT |
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Blekko, not content with revolutionizing the search market, is now getting ready to revolutionize the Pinterest(!?) market. The company behind the spam adverse search engine has launched ROCKzi that it characterizes as a cross between Pinterest and Flipboard.
The "like x but with y" formula is tried and tested, so p... |
12 July 2012
10:12 GMT |
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Yandex, Russia's top search engine, has led an investment round in Blekko, the upstart search engine that aims to bring curated results with some help from users and experts.Yandex, joined by other new and existing investors, will pour $30 million, 22 million Euro, into the small search engine. Arkady Volozh, fo... |
29 September 2011
14:11 GMT |
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A security researcher says that Blekko is no better than its competition at filtering spam in search results, despite using such claims to promote itself.Blekko launched on November 1, 2010, with the stated goal of providing a better search experience than Google. It's first page claims the engine slashes out sp... |
3 August 2011
04:00 GMT |
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Blekko, the upstart search engine, has taken a much more aggressive step towards cutting down the amount of spam usually littering search results. While Google recently introduced an algorithm update that tackled the problem by demoting spammy and poor quality websites, Blekko has now removed some 1.1 million domains... |
10 March 2011
11:15 GMT |
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While Google and Bing bicker about copied search results, the need for more 'voices' in the search world has never been more poignant. With Yahoo gone, the task falls to the number of small companies coming from behind. Blekko has only been around a few months, but it is seeing healthy growth and has announ... |
7 February 2011
13:51 GMT |
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Spam or junk web pages designed to drive traffic and filled with ads are a reality most users face each day. For those that know better, the telltale signs are obvious most of the times, but you still get fooled every once in a while, even if it's for a few seconds. And for most people, who are not heavy interne... |
10 January 2011
05:29 GMT |
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Just as the search world is becoming less varied, now that Yahoo search results are provided by Bing, in the US for now, a new search engine is being launched to challenge the established market. Blekko, which has been in the works for quite some time, is now going public and is available for everyone.Blekko is a cla... |
1 November 2010
06:49 GMT |
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For an area as entrenched as the search market, there’s certainly been a lot of activity lately. The Blekko search engine has just entered a private beta phase and now Swingly, a search engine / questions and answers (Q&A) site hybrid, is opening up a little bit as well.While Swingly can be rightfully considere... |
17 August 2010
06:49 GMT |
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The search space has been stagnant for the past few years with Google enjoying a very solid lead and with Yahoo and Microsoft trying to get by with what’s left. Everyone else barely registers. Microsoft has resorted to buying up Yahoo’s search engine to get some market share and is pouring billions to ver... |
20 July 2010
04:52 GMT |
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The search engine market isn't exactly lacking contenders and it is one of the most entrenched corners of the Internet but that hasn't stopped countless startups from trying, and failing, to conquer or, at least, make a dent in it. But, as not even Microsoft has managed to gain market share after pouring bi... |
28 July 2009
04:30 GMT |
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No, no horseshoes in the boxing gloves, it’s going to be a fair fight. Unfortunately. I would have liked to see somebody go up against Google and fight dirty, but I guess that there are laws against this, nowadays, they track you anywhere you are and then they do you in. Eh, well, at least there’s going to be a fight... |
4 January 2008
18:21 GMT |
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