What do you think about Blekko [NB not a racist slur, but a search engine) - GoFuckYourself.com

DamianJ · 11-02-2010, 10:37 AM

Like a cross between mahalo and google. Helps you avoid spam sites.

http://blekko.com/ws/+/about

Probably won't be taken up, but with some limited testing here, it's throwing up 'more' meaningful results for me than google on heavily spammed categories.

What say you?

TheDoc · 11-02-2010, 10:43 AM

My sites seem to be listed on it. Looks like a cool little engine, I could actually see this becoming something worthy.

The seo data is a neat feature. Stats are a little off but I expect that. Overall, I like it.

minicivan · 11-02-2010, 10:48 AM

Nothing but a gimmicky tool to woo investors, get some VC and live it up and get out before it implodes.

Agent 488 · 11-02-2010, 10:50 AM

shrug. thought it would be more of a google killer when read the rave review in tech crunch, but results seem no better than google, some worse.

there is so much going on with google beyond search that something focused solely in search results seems somewhat archaic. search engines will look like geocities in about five years.

TheDoc · 11-02-2010, 10:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Agent 488

shrug. thought it would be more of a google killer when read the rave review in tech crunch, but results seem no better than google, some worse.

there is so much going on with google beyond search that something focused solely in search results seems somewhat archaic. search engines will look like geocities in about five years.

Better results is for the surfers....it's going to be hard to pull people away from Google, when most basic searches are a snap to find.

With Blekko, all those pretty stats, toys, features are for people like me and you.

They need to get people like us using it first, with features that can compete with Google at the Webmaster level. Then... if they improve, able to grow, and clean up the surfer listings - "we" won't have a problem telling the world about it.

No other real way to compete with Google...

TeenCat · 11-02-2010, 11:06 AM

tried some keywords and most of the results was totally unrelated with what i have looking for, totally useless and only to make myself wasting time with stupid results, like idiot ... checked twice, and was enough ... btw, how ended that other new ai super mega search engine?

TheDoc · 11-02-2010, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by TeenCat

tried some keywords and most of the results was totally unrelated with what i have looking for, totally useless and only to make myself wasting time with stupid results, like idiot ... checked twice, and was enough ... btw, how ended that other new ai super mega search engine?

In a way, that is the point of it.... It's not really a search engine, it's a web search.

The way I see it, it shouldn't return the same results as Google, or better (yet at least) - I think, it will take more people using it to create those better results, group the social aspects of it mixed with searching with tags and keywords together.... then the results will clean up.

kane · 11-02-2010, 11:53 AM

the results seem decent for the few searches I did, but the the name is terrible. Since they don't seem to own bleko.com I wold imagine a lot of people will forget the second "k" and end up somewhere else.

Phoenix · 11-02-2010, 12:10 PM

cool..i been playing with it for awhile

blazin · 11-05-2010, 09:08 AM

It's a really good tool for seeing where your competitors are getting their links from... I'm really finding it useful.

11-02-2010, 10:37 AM	#1
DamianJ Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: A magical land Posts: 15,808	What do you think about Blekko [NB not a racist slur, but a search engine) Like a cross between mahalo and google. Helps you avoid spam sites. http://blekko.com/ws/+/about Probably won't be taken up, but with some limited testing here, it's throwing up 'more' meaningful results for me than google on heavily spammed categories. What say you?

11-02-2010, 10:43 AM	#2
TheDoc Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Currently Incognito Posts: 13,827	My sites seem to be listed on it. Looks like a cool little engine, I could actually see this becoming something worthy. The seo data is a neat feature. Stats are a little off but I expect that. Overall, I like it. __________________ ~TheDoc - ICQ7765825 It's all disambiguation

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TeenCat Too lazy to set a koala Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: CZ/EU forever! Posts: 16,139	tried some keywords and most of the results was totally unrelated with what i have looking for, totally useless and only to make myself wasting time with stupid results, like idiot ... checked twice, and was enough ... btw, how ended that other new ai super mega search engine? __________________ 6bot / Coming again very soon! Svit Zlin Radio 24/7!

11-02-2010, 12:10 PM	#9
Phoenix BACON BACON BACON Industry Role: Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Poems everybody, the laddie fancies himself a poet Posts: 35,469	cool..i been playing with it for awhile __________________ Skype Phoenixskype1 Telegram PhoenixBrad https://quantads.io

11-05-2010, 09:08 AM	#10
blazin Confirmed User Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,781	It's a really good tool for seeing where your competitors are getting their links from... I'm really finding it useful. __________________ I don't endorse a god damn thing......

11-02-2010, 10:48 AM	#3
minicivan Confirmed User Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 943	Nothing but a gimmicky tool to woo investors, get some VC and live it up and get out before it implodes.

11-02-2010, 10:50 AM	#4
Agent 488 Registered User Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 22,511	shrug. thought it would be more of a google killer when read the rave review in tech crunch, but results seem no better than google, some worse. there is so much going on with google beyond search that something focused solely in search results seems somewhat archaic. search engines will look like geocities in about five years.

11-02-2010, 11:53 AM	#8
kane Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: portland, OR Posts: 20,684	the results seem decent for the few searches I did, but the the name is terrible. Since they don't seem to own bleko.com I wold imagine a lot of people will forget the second "k" and end up somewhere else.