Blekko Gets a Million Searches a Day. Only behind Google and Bing.

> Blekko, a well-funded new search engine that aims to be No. 3 behind Google and Bing

Inaccurate title; it implies Blekko is currently the #3 search engine while the article states this is just an aim. (They are probably aiming to be higher than 3. Shoot for the moon, might catch a star, right?). Glad I heard about it though. Interesting idea on slashtags; seems very roughly similar to some of DDG's !bang commands.

[1] http://comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2010/10/comS...

370KB for a search engine landing page is ludicrous.

i think these numbers are kinda pointless since there is so much buzz for it. Give it 2-3 months and we'll see if people actually switch to it permanently

Yeah, I'll second the quality of the searches. Especially those where you know what you're looking for (obscure programming docs and forum/group chat logs for one)

Great to see that level of success. I hope it's not due to the novelty of this, and I'm sure we're bound to see adoption slowly creep up with this slashtag business (and probably some similar stuff from Google as well)

I would wait at least 6months to a year to see if blekko is still relevant or used. Iirc cuil did ok when they first launched also.

Search quality is still somewhat lacking:

F# download's top result is an old build from 2008. After that, it appears to be some spammy software download sites.

F# generic comparison #10 result is "Sun Emporium boys swim trunks - Compare online at Bizrate.co.uk". It also suggests an autocorrect to "F# genetic comparison".

Is this another Cuil trying to follow Google or is it looking to do something different like Wolfram Alpha and Duck Duck Go?

Personally I still use Google for 90% of my day to day searching, but I'm trying harder to use Duck Duck Go where I can.

The searched results are surprising good!

But I'm not sure how they will handle blackhat SEO, especially they allow users to apply as editor much like domz.org

"Only behind Google and Bing"

Are there any other search engines? Most others are either obsolete or niche.

Given that the only reason to use Bing is to find the address for google chrome when I reinstall xp, why would I ever care about this?

And in addition the headline is a joke -- google properly does that many searches a minute. Blekko isn't even an also ran.