frederi

Just because you can do it without much effort doesn't mean less experienced people can. Crawling can be a barrier to some people.

Why can't they just write code that reverses the input?

For me, blekko doesn't have to be "so much better" to make me use it over Google, it just has to be just as good or slightly better because I respect and support blekko's philosophy. If two products were of equal quality, wouldn't you rather use the one made by a company that shares your values?

Is the "Facebook infection" code open source? There is no link to the code.