Blekko.com Beta Search Engine

[BOSS]

Ryan... what's a "biased search engine"?

Rather than me talking about Blekko.com (since I know little about it) you can read about Blekko search HERE.

My test search for "Florist 48640"... HERE Anaheim Florist HERE What the heck is the 6th result HERE LOL....

From Blekko:

One very cool part of the Blekko technology is that it uses spam as a signal of significance. If a result returns a lot of hits from known automatic linkfarms or spam sites, the Blekko engine uses this data as an indicator of the importance of the query and aggressively filters out the less-than-useful returns. ​

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[theRKF]

In short, the engine lets you input your own bias instead of having Google guess based on their profile of you.

Here's an old article on Blekko from Mick Higgins at Search Engine People:
http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/blekko.html

 

[CHR]

Some of the guys behind Blekko also founded DMOZ and Topix and the results for the queries I used (city+flowers or +florist) appear to have been influenced by both of those sites.

Here's Danny Sullivan's take on Blekko yesterday from Search Engine Land.