Blekko, trademarked as blekko (lowercase), [1] was a company that provided a web search engine with the stated goal of providing better search results than those offered by Google Search, with results gathered from a set of 3 billion trusted webpages and excluding such sites as …

blekko's web search uses slashtags that narrow your search to only the sites or concepts you want

Jul 28, 2010 · New challenger Blekko is stepping into the fray, opening to limited beta testing today. It offers a compelling way to “slash the web” and put a particular spin on your search results. Blekko...

Mar 27, 2015 · Quiet for nearly two years, Blekko's home page says its team and technology are now part of IBM's Watson technology. Add Blekko to the list of startup search engines that has come and now gone....

Oct 31, 2010 · Blekko, the long anticipated search engine founded by Rich Skrenta, has finally opened to the public. The service offers an interesting way to “slash” or create specialty search...

Nov 3, 2010 · After our interview, I asked Skrenta for his top three searches that you could execute on Blekko and not on Google, and they were, in this order: In accord with his logic, Skrenta’s top three...

May 7, 2011 · Blekko, a search engine, uses human input, drawing on the wiki model. It may sound like a stretch to take on an entrenched competitor that even a giant like Microsoft, after spending hundreds of...

Nov 1, 2010 · Users who search for a topic that Blekko considers polluted with spamlike results, like health, receive an edited list. Start-ups and big companies alike have tried to take on Google by building...

Oct 28, 2010 · For anyone who wasn’t one of the 8,000 beta testers this summer, Blekko, a “better way to search the web by using slashtags”, will launch on Monday for everyone to use. Yours truly was fortunate enough to score a beta for this search engine, and I …

Blekko's Izik is a powerful and functional search engine app, built specifically for iOS and Android. Get your web results in an image-rich layout organized by categories. Stay informed with the latest news, find out what’s hot on Twitter, and watch trending searches.