Blekko is an innovative web search solution intended to eliminate junk sites from search outcomes. Blekko officially opened Monday with a public beta. The Internet search company claims to offer higher quality results by filtering out websites that seek to draw traffic with keywords surrounded by junk content. Using slashtags, Blekko users can conduct vertical searches for more relevant results about certain things.
Working with Blekko slashtags
Blekko aims to eradicate the pointless links created by content farms that bog down search engine results. Blekko founders have been in secret for three years working on this project. "Slashtags" is the approach they have worked on. Slashtags allow users to fine-tune search queries for fewer results that include more pertinent, useful information and less garbage. Online websites that match the slashtag will show up in a Blekko search. Climate related in global warming show up when looking "global warming/climate." This is how Blekko slashtags work. "Climate" is the slashtag being used. Do you need to search on Blekko conservative points of views? Type in "global warming/conservative" as your search. Do you need more recent information about climate related global warming issues? Just type in "global warming/climate/date" to get your answers.
How Blekko develops slashtags
Areas like health, recipes, autos, hotels, song lyrics, personal finance and colleges are all areas that Blekko things has lots of junk in them, which is where edited results come from. There are some pre-selected slashtags at Blekko. There are there to help users who are looking a lot. Blekko has been refining its search formula with 8,000 beta testers who have sifted through web websites to compile a list of more than 3,000 slashtags. Slashtag editors are available for slashtags. This means users on Blekko can help edit the slashtags there.
Blekko adds people to the search equation
Blekko is a more useful search engine than Google's if you ask Claire Cain Miller at the New York Times. Only one match between the online websites in Miller's search was cdc.gov which is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Miller searched "pregnancy tips". Parenting online websites, a nonprofit group, and other govt websites showed up for Blekko's top 10. OfficialDatingResource.com was one of the picks in Google's top 10. It is hard to tell if an expert or a content farm was responsible for 2 articles on the very same thing due to the algorithms Google utilizes. This is not as bad with Blekko. This is because humans are there to help.
Details from
New York Times
nytimes.com/2010/11/01/technology/01search.html?_r=2&ref=business
Search engine Land
searchengineland.com/blekko-the-slashtag-search-engine-goes-live-54447
Mashable
mashable.com/2010/09/09/blekko/
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