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| 27.03.2015 | IBM acquires ‘certain assets’ from web crawling startup Blekko | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Updated at 1:40 p.m. Pacific to clarify that this... |
| 27.03.2015 | IBM acquires ‘certain assets’ from web crawling startup Blekko | Updated at 1:40 p.m. Pacific to clarify that this was an asset acquisition, not an acquisition of the startup itself.
Tech giant IBM today announced that it has acquired technology from startup Blekko.
The startup developed a web search eng... |
| 05.12.2014 | Google whack? Five alternative search engines | Google whack? Five alternative search engines
05-12-2014
When searching online, a large percentage of users go to one of three search engines: Google, Bing or Yahoo. Ixer offers some alternatives that may change the way you search.
Ixer wri... |
| 17.11.2014 | Capital And Success | In a post early last week I asserted this:
Access to capital and raising a boatload of it is rarely the thing that wins the market.
And then later in the week I saw this tweet
Duck Duck Go ($3m VC) vs Blekko ($60m VC) http://t.co/92eE9PsUoO... |
| 08.01.2014 | A Step-by-Step Guide to Making Your Online Life More Private in 2014 | Image by Cei Willis, graphic work by Sam Taylor
On March 12 of last year, Senator Ron Wyden asked Director of National Intelligence James Clapper point blank if the NSA collected bulk data on Americans. In front of a Senate Intelligence com... |
| 29.05.2013 | Alternative Search Engine Blekko Launches Major Redesign In Effort To Go Beyond The Usual 10 Blue Links | Blekko, the alternative search engine that launched back in 2010, unveiled a major redesign today that uses some of its “slashtag” technology to help users go beyond the usual ten blue links on its competitors search results pages. Blekko n... |
| 09.01.2013 | izik Gets A Warm Reception On iTunes | Last week, Blekko launched a new search app for tablets called izik (pronounced EYE-zik), and apparently it’s received a decent amount of buzz for its debut. The app debuted as the top free reference app on iTunes.
The company says in a blo... |
| 04.01.2013 | Blekko Reimagines Search Again With izik | Blekko announced that it has launched a new search app for tablets called izik (pronounced EYE-zik). The company says it was built specifically with the iPad and Android tablets in mind.
“Tablets are increasingly getting integrated into our... |
| 04.01.2013 | Blekko Launches Izik, A Tablet-Optimized Search App | Search startup Blekko is launching a new app today called Izik (pronounced “Isaac”), which it says has been designed specifically for the search experience on tablets.
CEO Rich Skrenta said Izik is an attempt to recapture “that same tingly ... |
| 17.12.2012 | Blekko Makes “Donation” Of Search Data To Common Crawl | Alternative search engine blekko announced today that it is “donating” 22 billion pages’ metadata to Common Crawl, a non-profit foundation, which maintains an open crawl of the web for access and analysis by anyone who cares.
“The holiday s... |
| 17.10.2012 | Blekko Launches New Suite Of SEO Tools | Blekko announced the launch of a new suite of premium SEO tools today. The suite features a re-designed user interface, and a number of new features.
The suite includes page analysis, SEO report cards, inbound links organized by categories,... |
| 09.10.2012 | Search Engine Blekko Brings Human Evaluation to Search Results | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Two years after he sold his second start-up, the online news aggregator Topix, to a trio of media companies, Blekko CEO Rich Skrenta was ready for a new challenge. During his ... |
| 05.10.2012 | Now You Can Embed ROCKZi’s Socially Curated News Pages On Your Own Website | ROCKZi, the social news service launched in July by search startup Blekko, has released a new feature allowing users to embed their “news boards” on other websites.
VP of Marketing Mike Markson describes this as a way for people to showcase... |
| 06.09.2012 | Bing Says Most People Prefer Bing To Google | Bing has launched a new campaign to try and steal away some of Google’s users, by offering a “blind comparison test,” for users to pick the results they like better – those from Bing or those from Google. You can take the test here.
A Bing ... |
| 14.07.2012 | Blekko Launches ROCKZi, a Social News Site to Complement Its Search Engine | The search engine Blekko just launched ROCKZi, a visually compelling way to consume and interact with the fresh content that users care about the most. After selecting the category that you want to read (Geekery, The BiZ, Glitterati…), you ... |
| 03.07.2012 | Blekko Gets New Crawl Technology, Adds Real Time SEO Updates | Alternative search engine blekko announced today that it has integrated new crawl technology to power its search index, and is now claiming to offer more comprehensive, real time updates to its SEO pages. This, a representative for the comp... |
| 21.12.2011 | Search underdog Blekko gets serious, makes major improvements (exclusive) | With 1.5 million unique users and 70 to 80 million queries per month, search upstart Blekko isn’t big enough to sit at the adult search table with Google, Yahoo or Microsoft. But don’t tell that to Blekko.
Fed up with the prevalence of spam... |
| 30.11.2011 | Saving Chanel, but losing the web | Much to the dismay of pretty much everyone on the web, a federal judge decided yesterday to allow luxury brand Chanel to seize and shutter 228 web domains that it argued offered counterfeit versions of its products.
The decision, and the pr... |
| 26.10.2011 | The Web’s Last Word on Words | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Wordnik (wərd-nik) noun. 1. A person associated with or characterized by a love of words, word usage, linguistics, or lexicography. 2. A startup company headquartered in San M... |
| 30.09.2011 | Blekko Closes $30 Million Funding Round |
Round in search engine led by Russia's largest internet company Yandex. Additional investors in the $30 million funding round were Australian investor, MLC Private Equity, and existing investors U.S. Venture Partners, CMEA Capital and Piv... |
| 30.09.2011 | Search startup Blekko closes $30M funding round | Ambitious search engine startup Blekko has closed a new $30 million funding round, the company announced today.
Unlike search giant Google, Blekko uses slashtags to help filter results, which means it searches only the sites you want and di... |
| 30.09.2011 | Search startup Blekko closes $30M funding round | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Ambitious search engine startup Blekko has closed... |
| 30.09.2011 | Psilos, Box, Blekko: Bay Area BizTech By the Numbers | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s time for our data-driven news roundup. From the biggest number to the smallest:
$400 million—The target size of a new venture fund being raised by health IT investor Psil... |
| 29.09.2011 | Search Engine Blekko Raises $30 Million From Russian Search Giant Yandex And Others | Search engine Blekko has raised $30 million in new funding Yandex, MLC Private Equity, and existing investors U.S. Venture Partners, CMEA Capital and PivotNorth Capital (Ashton Kutcher is also a previous investor). This brings Blekko’s tota... |
| 29.09.2011 | Yandex leads $30M round in slash tag hero blekko | The search optimizer adds Yandex to its long list of notable investors
Slash tag search optimizer blekko is making some big new friends overseas. The company announced Thursday that it has just raised a $30 million round of funding led by n... |
| 29.09.2011 | Blekko Raises $30M in Funding | Blekko, Redwood City, CA-based search engine company focused on eliminating spam from search results, has raised $30m in funding.
Backers in the round include the internet company Yandex (NASDAQ: YNDX), MLC Private Equity, and existing inve... |
| 26.07.2011 | Blekko Gets An Infographic | Since I am our resident steward of infographics I figured I might as well highlight the creation of the very first Blekko infographic (below), brought to you by our friends over at Cognitive SEO. Related: Am I a huge dork because I can corr... |
| 03.07.2011 | Google’s Six-Front War | Editor’s note: Guest contributor Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer internet, and social networks. He is based in Palo Alto and you can follow him on twitter @semilshah.
While the tech world is buzzing about... |
| 29.06.2011 | Blekko Partners With Foodily On Recipe Search | After announcing its Zorro visual revamp and its Three Search Engine Monte challenge, Blekko is announcing today that it’s partnered with recipe search engine Foodily in order to curate its recipe search results.
As of today. users who sear... |
| 21.06.2011 | Slash Through Spam With Blekko's Zorro Update! | Ok, I got a little over excited in the title. But the new version of search engine Blekko, called Zorro and launching right now, is pretty cool. There have been big improvements visually. Gone are the red links of previous the version along... |
| 21.06.2011 | Be The Mark In Blekko's 3 Engine Monte | Search engine Blekko is pretty excited about their new Zorro launch that I just wrote about. All new design, a move from red to blue links and a general declutterfication is just the shiny stuff on top. Underneath there’s a new web index an... |
| 18.05.2011 | Silk Scores Seed Funding From Atomico, Others For Content Crunching Platform | Exclusive – Amsterdam-based startup Silk, which offers a platform that allows content creators to distribute their work on the Web in a more structured manner, has raised €320,000 (approximately $475,000) in early-stage funding from Atomico... |
| 12.05.2011 | Search Contrarian Blekko's Next Move: Limiting Its User Data Retention To 48 Hours | Search engine Blekko, ever eager to differentiate itself and make headlines with its countless product development advances, is announcing today that it will reduce its data retention period to 48 hours, retaining far less user personal inf... |
| 04.05.2011 | Would You Like A Slashtag With That? Blekko Begins Powering Topix Search | Topix, the largely under-the-radar platform for local news, information, and influence, has been aggregating local news and community discussions for nearly 7 years. Over this time, the platform has quietly grown to over 13 million monthly ... |
| 21.04.2011 | Human-Curated Search Engine Blekko Adds Facebook Comments To Its Search Results | Ever since its launch in November 2010, Blekko has been on a mission to eliminate spam and content farms from search results. The human-curated search engine, which is also known both for using actual mammals to edit search results and for ... |
| 09.03.2011 | Blekko Bans 1.1 Million Spammy Domains Via New Algorithm | Search engine Blekko says they’ve banned some 1.1 million spammy domain names from their search results. The banned domains are the result of a new algorithm the company has developed that looks at both poor quality content as well as the t... |
| 04.03.2011 | Blekko Now Offers 'Blekkogear' Publisher Tools: Badges, Widgets, And Toolbars, Oh My! | Search engine Blekko is taking its initiative to insert itself into the news as much as possible one step further today, and is launching a Blekkogear hub for its publishing tools, presenting a package suite of search-related iframe embeds ... |
| 28.02.2011 | Chomp May Have Just Solved The Nightmare That Is Android App Search | Regardless of what you think about the Android platform, there’s no denying that the Market experience for finding apps is pretty poor. And that’s putting it nicely. Google has evolved the experience over the years, and the web-based Market... |
| 22.02.2011 | Kutcher bets on SeatGeek as online ticket sites battle | Celebu-vestor Ashton Kutcher is at it again, using his venture capital fund, A Grade Investments, to pour an undisclosed amount of funding into online ticket-search firm startup SeatGeek, the company announced today.
SeatGeek uses algorithm... |
| 14.02.2011 | Google Crowdsources Content Farm Detection With A Chrome Extension | After a weekend filled with more search drama — from a sting operation set up by the New York Times to catch SEO offender JC Penney, to The Content Farm satire blog, to Danny Sullivan’s tongue in cheek “How to use Google to Search” to Mike ... |
| 12.02.2011 | Search Still Sucks | A decade ago I tried Google for the first time. Like everyone said, it was magic – the result I wanted was right there at the top. For someone who’d been using AltaVista for years before that it was a very pleasant experience. Anyone who wa... |
| 04.02.2011 | Search Underdog Blekko Sees Over 30M Searches In January, More Than 110K Slashtags Created Since Launch | Nowhere has the need for a more diverse search market been more apparent than this week’s revelation that Bing was cribbing Google’s notes.
While Microsoft VP Harry Shum and Google’s Matt Cutts squabbled on a panel together at the Farsight ... |
| 31.01.2011 | Blekko Bans Content Farms Like Demand Media's eHow From Its Search Results | Blekko, the perky little search engine startup that lets you customize your search results, is taking the fight against web spam to a new level. It already allows searchers to mark results as spam and keeps a spam clock that counts how many... |
| 28.01.2011 | Blekko Takes Curated Search Mobile With iPhone And Android Apps | Blekko, the search engine that is fighting the good fight against web spam with human editors, is joining biggies Google and Bing in the mobile search arena today with an Android and iPhone application double whammy. Says Blekko CEO Rich Sk... |
| 28.01.2011 | The Future of Search: Who Will Win The Spam Wars? | Sometimes, all it takes is a little spark to set off a major forest fire. That is what seems to have happened with my New Year’s Day post on Why We Desperately Need a New (and Better) Google. Over the last two months, there has been an aval... |
| 24.01.2011 | Blekko Finally Gets Cool As Ashton Kutcher Invests $200k | Blekko, a search engine, isn’t exactly a flashy new startup. There’s the name for starters – it was something they came up with as a placeholder while they were stealth and decided that was a good long term name, too.
And then there was the... |
| 21.01.2011 | Congratulations Crunchies Winners! Twitter Takes Best Startup Of 2010 | This year’s fourth annual Crunchies Awards have just concluded, and we’re happy to say that it was an overwhelming success. For those who weren’t at the event or watching our livestream, we’ve included the list of nominees and winners below... |
| 07.01.2011 | Announcing Your 2010 Crunchies Finalists | The finalists for the 2010 Crunchies Awards have been chosen. Over 243,000 votes were made across all categories and many outstanding achievements were discussed. Along with our partners GigaOm and VentureBeat, we are very proud to announce... |
| 01.01.2011 | Why We Desperately Need a New (and Better) Google | This semester, my students at the School of Information at UC-Berkeley researched the VC system from the perspective of company founders. We prepared a detailed survey; randomly selected 500 companies from a venture database; and set out to... |
| 28.12.2010 | Top 10 RSS and Syndication Technologies of 2010 | “RSS is Dead“, tech sage Steve Gillmor said in May of 2009. I know that’s not true, because I spend a lot of my work and my leisure time reading RSS and other forms of syndicated content feeds.
If you’re not familiar with Really Simple Synd... |
| 15.12.2010 | Blekko Goes Social, Now Lets You Search Sites Your Friends Have 'Liked' On Facebook | As of today search engine Blekko has made search a little bit more social. Now the search engine lets you login through Facebook Connect and, using Facebook API data, shows you what sites your friends have ‘Liked’ as well as lets you search... |
| 10.12.2010 | The Secrets Behind Blekko’s Search Technology | Blekko has a refreshingly different interface to search, and a generous data-sharing philosophy, but what I didn’t realize was how innovative its underlying technology is. Last week I sat down with CEO Rich Skrenta and CTO Greg Lindahl, and... |
| 29.11.2010 | Blekko Gets Into Product Search With New Holiday Shopping Vertical /Safeshop | Blekko, the shiny new search engine that is taking on Google, is getting into product search today with the launch of a new vertical for holiday shopping. As you may have heard, the recently launched search engine differentiates itself from... |
| 23.11.2010 | Blekko Partners Up With Search Engine DuckDuckGo | Blekko, the little search engine that could, has just come off the success of hitting one million search queries day and 30,000 slashtags (human curated search topics like /colleges, /vegan, /blogs) created in it’s first week of existence.
... |
| 16.11.2010 | Ron Conway's Crystal Ball: 12 Startups On The Cusp | Today at the Web 2.0 Summit, esteemed angel investor Ron Conway took the stage to give attendees a quick taste of the innovation that’s currently going on in Silicon Valley (and NYC’s Silicon Alley, which Conway specifically mentioned). To ... |
| 13.11.2010 | How Durable Are Information Monopolies On The Internet? | Does the Internet tend towards natural monoplies? Columbia Law professor Tim Wu makes a strong argument that it does in an Op-Ed in this weekend’s Wall Street Journal. While there is plenty of diversity on the Internet and few barriers to s... |
| 12.11.2010 | *AD HERE* TripAdvisor: Plan *AD HERE* Your Vacation *AD HERE* Here *AD HERE* Please | So, LeWeb ’10 is coming up. Let’s say you’re looking for some good ideas of where to stay and what to do in Paris while you’re there. Where are you most likely to turn on the web? Google. A search for “paris vacation” yields TripAdvisor as ... |
| 09.11.2010 | Why Is Quora Mass Creating Twitter Accounts On Mechanical Turk? | Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is, among other things, a great place to get cheap labor to perform simple tasks that help black hat SEO efforts and general social network spamming. The problem is growing so large that it’s becoming a serious poll... |
| 09.11.2010 | Ask.com Gives Up On Search, Hangs Its Hopes On Q&A | photo © 2008 Desi | more info (via: Wylio) IAC’s Ask.com has laid off 130 of its search engineers in New Jersey and China and surrendered its search operations to its competitors in the notoriously tough search market. Remaining search staf... |
| 06.11.2010 | How to Use Blekko to Rock at Your Job | The author of the web’s first worm-virus, teamed with a man who dresses as a medieval warrior and goes to battle on the weekends and a woman who follows World of Warcraft, acupuncture and ballet, have raised $24 million dollars to storm the... |
| 03.11.2010 | What Can You Do On Blekko That You Can't Do On Google? (TCTV) | We recently brought Blekko CEO Rich Skrenta into our office to talk about why his company’s recent attempt to enter a market where two search engines hold 90% of the market share is not completely insane. The prevailing “Blekko is doomed” a... |
| 26.10.2010 | Get Ready For Blekko: Public Launch On November 1 | Blekko, the shiny new search engine that we first started covering way back in 2008 when they had a hand puppet as their mascot, is preparing to launch. Next Monday, November 1, they’ll turn the lights on and let anyone in.
If you’re really... |
| 16.09.2010 | Harvard Hawking Online Cialis? Welcome to the New Era of “Web Snatchers” | Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post from Michael Markson, VP of Marketing for internet search engine Blekko, Inc. Previously, Markson was founder and VP of Business Development of news site Topix.
In the 1956 classic horror film In... |
| 27.08.2010 | Blekko search: Coming soon to a browser near you | Blekko CEO Rich Skrenta has conceded the search battle to Google without even firing a shot. Instead, he’s adopted the mantra of his co-founder Mike Markson: own a category or die.
The challenge for Blekko is that the company must figure o... |
| 27.08.2010 | Blekko search: Coming soon to a browser near you | Blekko CEO Rich Skrenta has conceded the search battle to Google without even firing a shot. Instead, he’s adopted the mantra of his co-founder Mike Markson: own a category or die.
The challenge for Blekko is that the company must figure ou... |
| 11.08.2010 | Can Slense be the Blekko of Europe? Launches customizable search engine | There has been lots of buzz around Blekko, one of Silicon Valley’s hottest startups. At the recent Social Currency CrunchUp CEO Rich Skrenta gave an impressive demo of their product and attendees got a first glimpse of Blekko’s powerful sea... |
| 30.07.2010 | Innovative New Search Engine Blekko Has 500 Invites For TechCrunch Readers | Today at our Social Currency CrunchUp (which is currently being livestreamed here), Blekko founder and CEO Rich Skrenta gave the first live demo of the startup’s innovative search engine (be sure to check out our initial review). To mark th... |
| 29.07.2010 | Five Reasons You Want To Come To The Social Currency CrunchUp Tomorrow | Tomorrow, Friday, is our fifth annual yearly blowout party at August Capital – the event I look forward to all year. Tickets to that event are long gone, but a handful are left for the all day conference we hold prior to the party, the Soci... |
| 19.07.2010 | Blekko Screencast And Founder Interview | We just posted our first thoughts on Blekko, a new search engine preparing to launch to the public. We’ve also taken a screencast of the search experience on the site and have a short video interview with cofounders Rich Skrenta and Mike Ma... |
| 19.07.2010 | TechCrunch Review: The Blekko Search Engine Prepares To Launch | It takes a crazier than average entrepreneur to go after the search market. There’s an entrenched player, Google, with 65% market share. Google is so powerful the second player, Yahoo, just bailed out of the market. And third place Microsof... |
| 15.04.2010 | Details On Imeem Founders Next Startup: Picplz (Updated) | There are two financing rumors buzzing through Silicon Valley this week. The first is the huge Groupon funding which we wrote about yesterday. The second, on the other end of the scale dollar-wise, is the new startup created by Imeem execs ... |
| 04.11.2009 | Stealth Search Engine Blekko Raises Another $2.5 Million | Stealth search engine Blekko, which we’ve been tracking since early 2008, has closed another $2.5 million in funding, bringing the total raised to $20 million. This most recent round, says CEO Rich Skrenta, was a inside round led from exist... |
| 27.07.2009 | Blekko raises $11.5M to take a run at Google search | Arguing that Google’s search product is becoming more and more antiquated, stealthy new entry Blekko announced that it raised $11.5 million in capital from U.S. Venture Partners and CMEA Capital to make a splash with its launch — though whe... |
| 27.07.2009 | Blekko raises $11.5M to take a run at Google search | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Arguing that Google’s search product is becoming ... |
| 27.07.2009 | Stealth Search Engine Blekko Raises $11.5 Million | One search engine dies, another takes a step forward.
This is a hard space to find a niche in, but the money at stake if you succeed is staggering.
Blekko, the stealth search engine we’ve been covering since early 2008, has raised a third r... |
| 30.05.2009 | Shhh. Blekko Is Still In The Oven. Do Not Disturb | Life is not easy for search engine startups. FIrst, it’s hard to create something that doesn’t fall flat against Google. Too much hype (Google Killer!), whether the company drives it or not, inevitably leads to disappointment.
Cuil is walki... |
| 30.07.2008 | After Cuil, Blekko Will Be More Careful – But Does It Matter? | My first post for ReadWriteWeb, just over 1 year ago, started with the premise that search was “game over”, that Google had won and the only space left was (re)search – what users do after the basic search.
None of the search start-ups sinc... |
| 16.06.2008 | 11 Search Trends That May Disrupt Google | My first post for ReadWriteWeb (nearly a year ago) started with the premise that search was “game over”, that Google had won and the only opportunity left was (re)search – i.e. what one does after the basic search. Unfortunately, none of th... |
| 14.05.2008 | Stealth Search Engine Blekko Gets Money From Marc Andreessen, SoftTech | 2008 is the year of the search engine startup. Hot on the heels of Powerset’s partial launch earlier this week, stealth search engine Blekko (no logo, no website, just this and, apparently, some technology) raised a second round of financin... |
| 14.05.2008 | Stealth search company Blekko gets $3M | Blekko, a stealth search company started by Topix co-founder Rich Skrenta, has raised $3 million in a second round of funding, according to TechCrunch.
Little is known about the company, and right now its website contains nothing more than ... |
| 12.05.2008 | Powerset opens to everyone — now, what’s next? | Today, natural language search engine Powerset is finally opening its doors to everyone, as well as unveiling a set of tools that have previously been seen by only a handful of people. This marks the end of a long phase for Powerset — since... |
| 03.01.2008 | Caught up? Here’s everything from Blekko, Dash’s price, to Android sighting | The holiday break felt especially long this time, so here’s a longer roundup than usual — of everything you may have missed over the last few days:
Ebay’s Kijiji tries to tar Craiglist’s reputation — The NYT has a story about Kijiji, a comp... |
| 02.01.2008 | The Next Google Search Challenger: Blekko | Rich Skrenta, who created the first computer virus (Elk Cloner), co-founded the Open Directory Project, and co-founded online news site Topix, may have bitten off the biggest challenge of his career – taking on Google. In search.
Skrenta le... |
| - | "Яндекс" вложил $15 млн в американского "убийцу" Google | Сегодня компания Blekko объявила об очередном раунде инвестиций, в ходе которого привлекла $30 млн. "Яндекс "стал основным инвестором в этом раунде. Кроме того, в нём участвовали австралийский фонд прямых инвестиций МLC и текущие ... |
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