Is blekko doomed from the start?

I signed up for the beta and made it my home page. I tried hard to adopt. I exchanged emails w/ one of the guys there (he was super nice and replied quickly) when I had to revert to Google searches to find what I was looking for (80% of the time), but then gave up. If the basic search results quality/ranking was close to that of Google, I would have stuck with it.

The slashtags are pretty cool. But like the article says, search isn't broken, and putting a cool extra on top of so-so core functionality won't work. And if slashtags did take off, it would be super easy for Google to add that in. (Unless I'm missing some kind of patent stuff.)

Totally agree. I don't want to know or learn or care what a slashtag is.

Back to work..