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0 Search underdog Blekko gets serious, makes major improvements (exclusive)

With 1.5 million unique users and 70 to 80 million queries per month, search upstart Blekko isn’t big enough to sit at the adult search table with...

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0 Search startup Blekko closes $30M funding round

Ambitious search engine startup Blekko has closed a new $30 million funding round, the company announced today.

Unlike search giant Google, Blekko...

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0 Victor Belfor, Ben Smith: Why Startups Innovate Better Than Big Companies

With all their resources and talent, why do big companies have trouble innovating? How can a Blekko exist when there is a Google? Or a Tapulous when...

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0 Blekko Pulls Up $30M

Redwood Shores-based Blekko, which is developing a search engine it says will eliminate spam from search results, announced Thursday that it has...

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0 Blekko Takes on Google — With Help From Russia

Blekko, a search upstart that believes in human curation, has added $30 million in fresh funding to its coffers and has found a new strategic pa…

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0 Yandex leads $30M round in slash tag hero blekko

The search optimizer adds Yandex to its long list of notable investors

Slash tag search optimizer blekko is making some big new friends overseas....

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0 Blekko Closes $30 Million Funding Round; Welcomes Yandex as Strategic Investor

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Blekko, the search engine striving to eliminate spam from search results, announced today that Europe’s...

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0 If Google's Upstart Competitors Aren't Afraid Of Google, Why Is Washington Upset?

With Eric Schmidt in DC today to be grilled by a Senate commission about antitrust issues, it's interesting to see that Rich Skrenta, the founder/CEO...

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0 Blekko Gets An Infographic

Since I am our resident steward of infographics I figured I might as well highlight the creation of the very first Blekko infographic (below), brought...

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0 Blekko Partners With Foodily On Recipe Search

After announcing its Zorro visual revamp and its Three Search Engine Monte challenge, Blekko is announcing today that it's partnered with recipe...

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0 Be The Mark In Blekko’s 3 Engine Monte

Search engine Blekko is pretty excited about their new Zorro launch that I just wrote about. All new design, a move from red to blue links and a...

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0 Slash Through Spam With Blekko’s Zorro Update!

Ok, I got a little over excited in the title. But the new version of search engine Blekko, called Zorro and launching right now, is pretty cool. There...

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0 The Blekko Boom: Hottest Search Engine You’ve Never Heard of Inks Flipboard Deal

On Blekko, searchers double as editors, helping the upstart search engine refine and curate the best websites for any given query. The people-ce…

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0 Search Contrarian Blekko’s Next Move: Limiting Its User Data Retention To 48 Hours

Search engine Blekko, ever eager to differentiate itself and make headlines with its countless product development advances, is announcing today that...

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0 Topix Partners with Blekko To Power Their Search

Topix has just partnered with Blekko to power their in-site search functionality. Topix is a very large and well established local news aggregator, so...

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0 Would You Like A Slashtag With That? Blekko Begins Powering Topix Search

Topix, the largely under-the-radar platform for local news, information, and influence, has been aggregating local news and community discussions for...

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0 Human-Curated Search Engine Blekko Adds Facebook Comments To Its Search Results

Ever since its launch in November 2010, Blekko has been on a mission to eliminate spam and content farms from search results. The human-curated search...

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0 Danny Sullivan On How Viable It Is To Build Your Business On Google, Among Other Things

The search engine wars have been heightened since January, when TechCrunch contributor Vivek Wadhwa wrote about why we need a better system of search,...

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0 Blekko Selects Mellanox 10 Gigabit Ethernet to Provide Superior Performance Search Infrastructure

SUNNYVALE, Calif. & YOKNEAM, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mellanox announced that search company Blekko selected Mellanox’s Vantage 6048 10 Gigabit...

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0 Blekko Bans 1.1 Million Domains Identified by New AdSpam Technology

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Blekko announced today that it has identified 1.1 million domains as spam through the use of its new...

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