Blekko Search Engine

by Enviouz

Posted: 16 years ago 17 replies

What are your view on the new kid on the block, Blekko.com search engine. They are supposed to be the clean and honest search engine. How is this changing the SEO landscape.

How do you rank in Blekko anyway?

#blekko #engine #search

nedox 16 years ago

Blekko.com got some nice features like slashes, and my site is ranking on every keyword far better than on Google.
Only thing that bothers me so far is their dark red color, i don't like it

I will install their toolbar and see what it does when I find some spare time, it say that it's offering some SEO insight...so we'll see about that.

So far I'm not impressed, but not disappointed either. It's still too early to judge them.
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- orvn 16 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by nedox
  
  So far I'm not impressed, but not disappointed either. It's still too early to judge them.
  
  My thoughts exactly.
  
  I agree about the slash-tag thing, that COULD be interesting because it's like custom user-defined function filters embedded into the search.
  
  All of this sort or reminds me of Clusty/Yipee though!
  
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paulgl 16 years ago

The only difference in this new one and the 1,000's of others, is the
creator. That's the only difference. If they are lucky, they will be
eventually bought out by yahoo or bing. If they are lucky.

Google never stands still. They are already doing the same things.

I find it laughable that people who claim to be "building a better
search engine," are always forgetting that google is constantly
"building a superior search engine." (my personal quotes)

Paul
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- Mike Anthony 16 years ago
  
  I actually like the tags. If it does take off it will be from the custom tags that people use as part of a social network like buzz. They really don't need to take out Google or Bing. All they need is a modest pickup of a few percentage points and they should be good to go. That way they can sell off to one of those.
  
  Professionally I have to hope they crash and burn. If the concept is built out to something people use in Google it would make ranking a much more complex process. Technology never stands still so if not that then something else.
  
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jhonsean 16 years ago

I heard bing and now Blekko, I observed that there is an continuous providing of different search engine but google is the founder of all of these i mean google have the supremacy.
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- GrowTallerNiche 16 years ago
  
  Blekko doesn't index enough sites. It has potential but it needs to work on how much it crawls.
  
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  paulgl 16 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by GrowTallerNiche
  
  Blekko doesn't index enough sites. It has potential but it needs to work on how much it crawls.
  
  I beg to differ. They want to pride themselves on NOT indexing tons of irrelevant crapola.
  
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Enviouz 16 years ago

Agree with paulgl. That is exactly right. Don't underestimate the power of people. Look at Facebook, they get a lot of traffic, beating Google. Who would have thought?
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louis2609 16 years ago

Blekko search engine? What is it? i have not heard about this, so i will try it in the future. Does anyone use it? can you tell me which one is better ? Google or Blekko? I think I will prefer Google for next long time. Sorry about this
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amrish2338 16 years ago

Its sesch results are different from google.it is searching on the besis of domain age
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Enviouz 16 years ago

It displays search results based on domain age? I've not heard anything about this. Have you got a list of how it displays the result?
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- paulgl 16 years ago
  
  In case you missed it, Ask.com is shutting down its search ops.
  Laying off 180 engineers, tossing in the towel. To google.
  
  IAC's Diller Surrenders to Google, Cuts Jobs, Ends Ask.com Search Effort - Bloomberg
  
  Whether you love google or hate them, you know they must chuckle each time
  someone tries to invent yet another search operation.
  
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Enviouz 16 years ago

You are right, it may be a case of too early to tell.
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Rob141 16 years ago

It looks very nice but the problem is no one will use it.
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- Keith Price 16 years ago
  
  So, does anyone know how to get listed in Blekko?
  
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jesus72knight 16 years ago

Blekko is clean and sleak. Looks like in "sepia" for me. :p

I'm not underestimating Blekko but I think it can't catch up with the giants. Remember how Cuil aimed to be the number one search engine and it ended in a dismal flop? Blekko should do lots of works in order to catch up. But nonetheless, we should always keep an eye on the newcomers. We just don't what might happen in the future.
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socialbookmark 16 years ago

Maybe this search engine become a good one later and it can index a lot of pages and search with a good algorithm, but currently i prefer Google to all other search engines.
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