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Former Google employees are unveiling a search engine that they promise will be more comprehensive than Google's and hope will give its users more relevant results.
Technology: Former Employees of Google Prepare Rival Search Engine
By MIGUEL HELFT
Published: July 28, 2008
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See also Ask.com, Vivisimo, Snap, Mahalo and Powerset.
Update 2010 Nov 1:
Blekko has raised $24 million in venture capital from prominent investors like Marc Andreessen, Ron Conway and U.S. Venture Partners. It plans to sell Google-like search ads associated with keywords and slashtags.Some start-ups that have taken on search have been folded into the big companies, like Powerset, which Microsoft bought in 2008. Others, like Cuil, a search engine started by former Google engineers in 2008, were flops. Blekko's slashtags could be subject to spam since anyone can edit them, but Blekko says it will avoid that with an editor and Wikipedia-style policing by users.
TECHNOLOGY
A New Search Engine, Where Less Is More
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER
Published: October 31, 2010
Blekko aims to show search results from only trustworthy sites, weeding out sites filled with little relevant information