Blekko – competition in the search engine world?

By: BEVERLY BUTULA//November 5, 2010//

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Earlier this week, a new search engine called blekko launched in beta. The site states that blekko is “a better way to search the web by using slashtags. Slashtags search only the sites you want and cut out the spam sites.” Using a slashtag in your search is a way to narrow or specify your results. Below is an example of a search for “electronic discovery.” Adding a term after the slashtag would limit the results to only websites dealing with that particular topic.

A summary of how to use these slashtags in found in this video.

There have been numerous articles and reviews on this new site. The Wall Street Journal ran an article on Halloween. PC Magazine has a review, as does Slaw the Canadian Legal blog. That is just a small sample.

I have always promoted using more than one search engine when doing research. Give it a try and see what you think.

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