Blekko is a Google Killer with powerful slashtag function

Blekko is a Google Killer. Now it is a beta version search engine. Blekko was founded in July 2007 and funded in part by ex-Googlers, Rich Skrenta. Blekko allowing users to execute searches that you “can’t do anywhere else. His goal is to for Blekko to gain a small amount of search share — which potentially, is still a great business.

Blekko allows this. You simply browse a list of topics to find the right slashtag to use. For example, this search:

malaysia/date

Blekko will give you the latest web published by date. You can use slashtags to create a version of Blekko that just searches in a specific area. Of, if slashtag for a topic hasn’t been created, then anyone can make their own. With the new feature called slashtags produce better results for these categories of searches. Using slashtags does a search against a set of hand-selected sites, which Blekko says eliminates spam and other irrelevant material.

Further, the site has what it calls a, ‘web search bill of rights,’ which states:

1. Search shall be open
2. Search results shall involve people
3. Ranking data shall not be kept secret
4. Web data shall be readily available
5. There is no one-size-fits-all for search
6. Advanced search shall be accessible
7. Search engine tools shall be open to all
8. Search and community go hand-in-hand
9. Spam does not belong in search results
10. Privacy of searchers shall not be violated

Sorry the video is in Malay.