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Why You Should Take the New Search Engine ‘Blekko’ Seriously

Why You Should Take the New Search Engine ‘Blekko’ Seriously
There is a new search engine in town. Well, this is a rough business and this attempt to challenge Google is something which only few dare to think.

Cuil and Wolfram Alpha tried and it is not only about Google that Blekko has to face. Bing and Yahoo are also in the scenario. However, there is something about this new search engine that is worth paying attention to. Though, it is taking a long shot to compete with Google and Microsoft but it doesn’t need to beat either of them as it has just come in third place.

Blekko has a big advantage over other Google competitors. One of the differentiators is that it is slashtag, which essentially filters for search results. The core slashtags are maintained by “a la Wikipedia’ and it consists of a serious of domains considered to be authoritative on issues in those categories.

In its launch, it has announced a new feature which is the autofiring of slashtags. It starts with seven key search categories like finance, lyrics, health and so on. This search engine algorithmically detects when a query has been made would return a lot of spammy results from within a specific category. The relevant slashtags are applied automatically and users won’t have to see the spammy content.

These slashtags are useful in some search categories and hopefully Blekko can make it useful in more categories.

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