Where In The Blink Is Blekko?
I recently read an article about a new kid on the block known as Blekko, that is receiving funding to start a new search company. Interesting. They must have something up their sleeve that may make Blekko different, since the company has received over $17M in funding. So I went over the Blekko site and there was a cute picture on the page, a link back to TechCrunch and a blog entry for the hiring of coders.
According to TechCrunch they state that:
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 round of financing – $11.5 million from USVP and CMEA. That brings the total amount of capital raised to $17.5 million, including a $1 million credit line. Their last round was in March 2008.
We took a look at Blekko in late May. The company wants absolutely no press at all while they continue to bake the product, but we think there is something interesting under the hood. And apparently a few investors agree.
So since the folks at Blekko do not want any press coverage, please do not read this article! LOL
What do you think? With Microsoft trying to promote Bing, and with Yahoo on the ropes, will another stab at a new search engine work? Can new search company take on and beat Google at their own game?
Comments welcome.
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Mark Wells
September 23rd, 2009
at 4:31pm
Hello:
google can be crushed – it’s terrible – Bing and Yahoo are virtually the same results – just check em – nobody mentions they’re the same because google has all the traffic
all the results are from high pr or trusted (what a joke) sites – real time search – what the heck it that – the same results from 1000 different blogs and link sites like twittless and stumbleover – where do twittelss and stumbleover get most of their traffic – Google – where the same results show up 800 times on differtnt twitts and stumbleovers
google will kill itself – virtualy all it’s advertisers are “trusted sites” – all are networked with many other sites in the same category (usually all owned by the same person (or business) – in any other industry except search this would be conflict of interest – anyway now usually only one or two at most paid results show up at top off google – these paid results virtually all already have pr and rank in google organically – so why buy advertising – simply – dogpile and others show more paid links from google and people click them – There basicaly are no more search engines – all there is is google and it’s affiliates – Bing bought Yahoo so there goes Yahoo – ask ect – DMOZ never updates
what will the Google Killer do – Rank websites – real websites with the content on the domain – make offlinks IRREVELANT – Inbound links MORE IRREVELANT – if more than 20% of uniq ip surfers after say 200 hits click “link is bad result” kill the domain – For Good
a good example of a huge site with all content on domain and no traffic – http://celebsfamous.com – this is a nude celebs site – and it s mine – probably people will say this is spam and remove it or possibly not – anyway I can’t pay webhosting so the site will be gone soon anyway – but if you want an example of search engine failure this is it
nude celebs is one of the most popular search terms – just Google it and compare what comes up with mine – comapre the content and lack of – compare the blind links and lack of – compare what is being advertised – (a lot of adult sites are riping people off really bad)
anyway do this and you will see that my site has all the content on the domain – it’s really free – there are no blind links and no lies
there is no more level playing field – want a great search engine then bring back Yahoo or Altavista or any other major player before there was PR AND ADD a “BAD RESULT” link Next To Each Result – When 20% click it – the spam sites are DEAD
am I implying the other sites lie – No I saying it outright
search is supposed to provide good results to the surfers – not spam for seo guys
I hate Google
thanks,
MEF