Blekko
Goodbye Blekko: Search Engine Joins IBM’s Watson Team
Quiet for nearly two years, Blekko's home page says its team and technology are now part of IBM's Watson...
Blekko’s Izik Search App Comes To iPhone, Android Devices
This morning, Blekko announced that its tablet search app, izik, is now available for the iPhone and Android devices. Currently there...
Blekko Lays Off Eight, Raises $6 Million More
Earlier this week blekko, which just introduced a bold new UI, had a reduction in force. Eight people were let go “as part of an effort to...
Seeking Broader Appeal Blekko Offers Bold New UI
In January, upstart search engine Blekko launched a specialized tablet app called Izik. The UI and overall experience were optimized for the...
Google Beats Bing, Yandex & Blekko At Keeping Malware Out Of Search Results [Study]
About three years ago, Google was labeled in one study as the “King of Malware.” Things have apparently changed a lot since then. A...
Blekko Launches New Tablet Search Engine “Izik”
Rich Skrenta and team at blekko are launching “izik,” a new tablet search engine (and browser) designed to deliver a “from the...
Free No More: Blekko’s SEO Tools Are Now A Paid Product
Blekko has changed its previously free SEO tools into a paid service, putting it in competition with the likes of SEOmoz.org, Ahrefs.com,...
With ROCKZi, Blekko Dips Its Toes Into Social Waters (And I Don’t Get It)
Search engines seem to be inexorably drawn to social platforms. There’s Google+ and there was Google Buzz. Yahoo has Flickr and Yahoo...
Blekko Offers Fresher Index For SEO Purposes
Blekko announced they have made improvements to their crawler and indexer to provide more up to date and fresher results to SEOs looking for SEO...
Blekko’s Traffic Is Up Almost 400 Percent; Here Are The CEO’s Five Reasons Why
By the end of April, traffic to Blekko will likely have quadrupled since January 1st, and the company has a handful of reasons why it thinks...
Blekko Testing Search Ads
MediaPost reports that Blekko, the slashtags search engine, has started testing monetization efforts through search ads. Currently, the ads are...
How To Track Emerging Search Engine Blekko In Web Analytics Systems
More than a year has passed since search engine upstart blekko launched, yet Web marketing analysts using digital media measurement tools like...
Blekko Expands: Bigger Index, More Slashtags & New Design
Blekko is closing out 2011 with a round of updates that affect the search engine’s front- and back-end — both how it looks and how...
Russian Search Engine Yandex Leads $30 Million Investment In Blekko
Blekko is the either the fourth US search engine or the third if you no longer consider Yahoo a search engine. And the company has been able to...
Oh Good Grep! Web Grepper: A New Web Intelligence Feature From Blekko
Blekko, the search engine that launched last year and is known for its spam reduction efforts, is introducing a new feature today that will help...
Blekko Slashes More Spam With “Zorro” Update
Blekko has found its mantra: the war on spam. The search startup, now six months old, is trying to challenge Bing and Google with a strategy...
Do@: The Search Engine Optimized for Mobile
Tel Aviv-based do@ (pronounced “do at”) probably won’t get you to stop using Google on your smartphone (iPhone exclusively...
Blekko Tightens Privacy Options, Will Keep User Data Only 48 Hours
As part of a series of updates to its user and search privacy options, Blekko says it will hold on to personal data for only 48 hours —...
Blekko Adds Facebook Comments To Search Results (But Why?)
If you’ve been hoping that someone’s search engine would turn into a social network, today is your lucky day. Sure, Google and Bing...
Blekko Offers New Linkroll Widget & More Publisher Tools
Blekko has expanded its publisher/marketer outreach with two new tools and a dedicated Blekkogear page for those and other publisher offerings....
