Blekko Gets a Million Searches a Day. Only behind Google and Bing.

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/11/blekko-first-week/

by rblion • 16 years ago

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iworkforthem• 16 years ago

The searched results are surprising good!

But I'm not sure how they will handle blackhat SEO, especially they allow users to apply as editor much like domz.org

yewweitan• 16 years ago

Yeah, I'll second the quality of the searches. Especially those where you know what you're looking for (obscure programming docs and forum/group chat logs for one)

Great to see that level of success. I hope it's not due to the novelty of this, and I'm sure we're bound to see adoption slowly creep up with this slashtag business (and probably some similar stuff from Google as well)

LiveTheDream• 16 years ago

> Blekko, a well-funded new search engine that aims to be No. 3 behind Google and Bing

Inaccurate title; it implies Blekko is currently the #3 search engine while the article states this is just an aim. (They are probably aiming to be higher than 3. Shoot for the moon, might catch a star, right?). Glad I heard about it though. Interesting idea on slashtags; seems very roughly similar to some of DDG's !bang commands.

[1] http://comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2010/10/comS...

rblion• 16 years ago

oops. won't let me change it. we will survive somehow...

leppie2• 16 years ago

370KB for a search engine landing page is ludicrous.

robk• 16 years ago

I especially hate this when I'm forced to use the Blackberry browser. It makes me feel the pain of every unnecessary kb!

leppie2• 16 years ago

With a litte context a 56k modem would take over 70 seconds to load the page (if nothing have been cached, like landing on it the first time).

As a blackberry user, I probably would have thought the site was broken :)

TamDenholm2• 16 years ago

"Only behind Google and Bing"

Are there any other search engines? Most others are either obsolete or niche.

hitonagashi• 16 years ago

Duck Duck Go

iampims• 16 years ago

Until yesterday, Ask.com was number 3.

meric• 16 years ago

Did I miss something happening to yahoo? http://au.search.yahoo.com/search?p=yahoo+search&fr=yfp-... Yahoo search still up?

TamDenholm2• 16 years ago

Yahoo turned their search over to bing.

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/07/yahoo-gives-up/

vaksel• 16 years ago

i think these numbers are kinda pointless since there is so much buzz for it. Give it 2-3 months and we'll see if people actually switch to it permanently

_b8r0• 16 years ago

Is this another Cuil trying to follow Google or is it looking to do something different like Wolfram Alpha and Duck Duck Go?

Personally I still use Google for 90% of my day to day searching, but I'm trying harder to use Duck Duck Go where I can.

tomjen3• 16 years ago

Given that the only reason to use Bing is to find the address for google chrome when I reinstall xp, why would I ever care about this?

And in addition the headline is a joke -- google properly does that many searches a minute. Blekko isn't even an also ran.

zitterbewegung• 16 years ago

I would wait at least 6months to a year to see if blekko is still relevant or used. Iirc cuil did ok when they first launched also.

MichaelGG• 16 years ago

Search quality is still somewhat lacking:

F# download's top result is an old build from 2008. After that, it appears to be some spammy software download sites.

F# generic comparison #10 result is "Sun Emporium boys swim trunks - Compare online at Bizrate.co.uk". It also suggests an autocorrect to "F# genetic comparison".

Blekko Gets a Million Searches a Day. Only behind Google and Bing.

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