A new kind of socially-biased search engine: Blekko

[dingobully1]

CNET has sold it's good name out for this thing called Blekko. Not only did it hijack all three of my browsers, but there is no uninstall, and it auto-directs you away pages that show you how to get rid of it. It is "biased" alright, biased towards Blekko. I sincerely hope Blekko is not going to be included with CNET downloads for long. I didn't really even see the screen asking my permission to do it, and I certainly would have never installed such a thing on purpose.

[chrisolds]

Not only does it "suck ass", but this scumware acts and installs itself just like Malware. If the stupid F****** thing is so good, then why to they have to ride in a install secretly , and maliciously stay behind.  Guess Again Blekko...It's just another Malware Infection to this IT Pro. bye Blekko (scumware)

[ZeusDeusEx]

Just tried it. It sucks ass.

[str8out]

Pretty cool... I just didn't like to see the signs of Apple favoritism. Two macs? Coincidence?

[conorucd]

@str8out programmers tend to favour macs or at least linux machines.

[kookieless]

@conorucd the funny thing is that the ceo of blekko made the first major virus called elk cloner on the apple ll in 1983

[conorucd]

@kookieless ye, the current apple os is completely unrelated to the apple 2 though. anyway, blekko is quite nice, better than cuil was and duckduckgo is and even bing

[kookieless]

@conorucd i find it funny how blekko says it slashes out malware but with linux very slim chance i would get it

[conorucd]

@kookieless its a search engine, it serves people other than linux users.

[kookieless]

@conorucd i don't like blekko "kookieless" gets more hits in google

[MrHabbman]

Blekko is a nice Search :)

[etherealsnstuff]

This is the future right here.

[centralhacker]

challenging Google with that? .. sorry, but that would be an insurmountable task

[WiredPockets]

interesting - but why the name Blekko?

[chickefitz]

Love it! Slashtags are brilliant. All that it is missing is context. I believe that multi-dimensional personas are needed in search. Built it for travel, but believe it is extendable to general search..

[newstartstoday]

Captions please.... we cannot hear you.

[sc00tz99]

Blekko looks to be a search engine of the future. Very cool. I'd love to try my hands at t his eventually.

[webmindset]

Just got the invite and created the /green slashtag. This is invigorating!

[DaleSchultz]

will all the slashtags have to be translated and aliased for non English translations? Some collisions may occur.

[webmindset]

Let's roll! Love Google, but probably only because I'm so familiar with it.

I started in '99 or so following WebMonkey and went from there. This is opening my eyes.

Thanks for the vid.

[EllieAsksWhy]

I love idea of competitive search eng offerings, not merely Google and Bing. Blekko has VERY good ideas, with unique or better functionality than anything else: their own query language 5:35 sort options 5:46 and slashtags. Social search too 16:25 !

But examples such as 2004 date range restricted search, blog search (Google offers both, tho not well for the latter), the non-existence of other search engines (others DO exist) should be rephrased.

Thanks for coverage of Blekko, Mr. Scoble!