Blekko : Adding A Spark To Your Web Search

Posted by Mike Alexender
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Aug 23, 2013
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If you are in a search of information regarding something particular and want to access the most relevant and high quality information, the most trustworthy source of information for you may be the Internet. You can find information about almost anything on the web but there is no assurance that the information you are accessing is appropriate. To eliminate the risks of such uncertainties for the information-seeker while he is surfing the web, blekko, one of the newest search engines, offers a lot to the web surfers trying to find good content while searching on the Internet.

The most characteristic feature of the new search engine is that it breaks down search results into categories that offer links to the results from verified content sources around the web. In addition to this, the new categories offer users more results on a single page than what it used to display previously. Each category can be expanded, allowing users to scroll horizontally through many more pages of results. This expanded category approach enables the search engine to pack much more information into a single page of search results. Definitely, each category is effectively a SERP with potentially hundreds of results.

A great feature that the search engine has implemented in its functioning is the execution of multiple searches and organizing them on a single page to free the user from having to refine and search several times to obtain the desired information.

The new blekko is much more “visual” and also uses responsive design. Results on the new search engine are organized into visually labeled, multi - colored categories that make it easier to quickly find the type of information being sought.

                                                    

The newly designed search engine supports a differentiating feature called “slash tags” that makes it stand out of the crowd in terms of generating high quality and spam-free search results. Slash tags are a way for the users to “spin” their search results using a variety of filters. In addition to providing a set of slash tags, the search engine allows the users to define their own slash tags by specifying a set of sites to be included. The search engine also has some special slash tags that don’t act as site filters, e.g., /date shows recent results and /SEO offers indexing information about websites.

As far as the matter of privacy of users is concerned, the privacy settings of the search engine are more transparent than Google. The personal information of the users like IP addresses is retained for a maximum of 48 hours which is very safe for users when compared to the 18-month policy employed by Google (and Yahoo) and the 6-month policy employed by Bing.

From the discussion made above, one can easily conclude that the search results generated by the search engine blekko allow users to more quickly get to great sources of information rather than scan through a list of blue links.

The search engine blekko aims to improve the information accessing experience of the web surfers who want to access high quality, spam-free and relevant information by offering unmatched features and technology to its user base.

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