Tag: Blekko

Blekko Flags More Than A Million Domains As Spam
Blekko has launched a new AdSpam algorithm it says is the first of its kind created to find spam rather than rank results. The algorithm is aimed at flagging pages which are spa...
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Blekko Launches Link Widget and Embeddable Search Box
Community-driven search engine Blekko has introduced new publisher tools focused on link transparency and customized search via Blekkogear. One of the new tools is called Blekk...
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Blekko Partners with Stack Overflow for Programming Queries
Blekko just announced it is now using the Stack Overflow community to help improve and maintain progr...
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DuckDuckGo Follows Content Farm Banning With Promoting wikiHow Content
Today, DuckDuckGo has started "hard wiring" wikiHow as the first result on its search engine results pages for how-to queries.&...
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Blekko Queries on the Rise, More So Since Content Farm Blocking
Blekko says its search queries climbed to a million a day in January. CEO Rich Skrenta tells WebProNews that Blekko has seen growth since its announcement that it has...
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Google vs. Bing Battle Continues, Users Should Benefit In the End
The Google vs. Bing search wars continues to rage on, and there's no reason to assume it will go away anytime soon. More and more takes on the subject are coming out, and the st...
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Confirmation: The Google Algorithm Change Was Not for Content Farms
When Google's Matt Cutts recently posted on his personal blog about an algorithm update, many people took that to mean that this was geared at cracking down on content farms, as...
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Google, Bing, and Blekko Talk Content Farms and Search Quality
Matt Cutts from Google, Harry Shum from Bing, and Rich Skrenta from Blekko spoke on a panel today at the Farsight Summit. Much of the conversation was...
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Blekko Goes Mobile with Android and iPhone Apps
Blekko has launched new mobile apps for iPhone and Android, which include the search engine's /date functionality and the ability to mark sea...
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Blekko CEO On The “Useless Garbage” Of The Web
Late last week, Blekko launched the Spam Clock - the search engine's illustration of ho...
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Blekko Launches Spam Clock
Blekko, the recently launched search engine that relies on the community to help maintain relevancy, has launched "The Spam Clock"....
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Blekko Adds Facebook “Likes” to Search Results
Bing announced yesterday that it is integrating more Facebook "likes" into search results, but Blekko, the new kid on the block, is now also providing such data, court...
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Blekko: Search and Shop Safely This Holiday Season
Community-driven search engine Blekko has been in the news a lot since its launch, and today it announced a way for users to do their holiday...
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Rich Skrenta Talks Blekko as “The Third Search Engine”
If you follow the search industry closely, or even just tech news, you've probably heard that...
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