The New Slashtag Search Engine: Blekko
Slashtags are curated sets of web sites organized around a particular topic. These cover almost all the topics we can think of. Slashtags are added to search queries so that search results are limited only to the curated sets of sites.
The long anticipated search engine founded by Rich Skrenta, has finally opened to the public with the name: 'Blekko'
For example, if we search “cure for headaches” on Blekko, it will provide results only from the top quality sites in the health category like US National Institutes Of Health or the UK’s National Health Service.
For searches that don’t fall within one of Blekko’s pre-defined categories, Blekko uses its proprietary ranking algorithms to deliver relevant results from its 3 billion page web crawl. As users create and refine more slashtags, Blekko plans to expand “auto-slashing” to improve results in more categories.
Blekko has been available on a very limited basis in private beta that began in July, 2010. More than 8,000 users from around the world joined the beta. During the beta period, users created more than 3,000 slashtags.
With Blekko, it's like Wikipedia getting a Search Engine. 😀
What do you think?
The long anticipated search engine founded by Rich Skrenta, has finally opened to the public with the name: 'Blekko'
For example, if we search “cure for headaches” on Blekko, it will provide results only from the top quality sites in the health category like US National Institutes Of Health or the UK’s National Health Service.
For searches that don’t fall within one of Blekko’s pre-defined categories, Blekko uses its proprietary ranking algorithms to deliver relevant results from its 3 billion page web crawl. As users create and refine more slashtags, Blekko plans to expand “auto-slashing” to improve results in more categories.
Blekko has been available on a very limited basis in private beta that began in July, 2010. More than 8,000 users from around the world joined the beta. During the beta period, users created more than 3,000 slashtags.
With Blekko, it's like Wikipedia getting a Search Engine. 😀
What do you think?
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sushant005Adding some more infomation,
Blekko allows users to filter their search results by searching within their sites and spams are automatically filtered out. Users will be able to follow public slashtags can use then as filters.Blekko itself creats the sites filter by which users can access huge amount of content in arranged way.
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