The world of search engines is amazing. There are a number of search engines in the present time that are active on the web space and try to make each and every single effortto prove themselves superiorin comparison to their rivals. Google, often regarded as the “King of Information”, is no doubt the first and prime choice of the web surfers whenever it comes to making a web search on the Internet but there are few other names that are also in the competition. Amongst them, the newly launched search engine blekko is gradually trying to make a presence on the Web through its advanced and user-friendly features.

The web search engine, co-founded in 2007 and launched to the public on November 1, 2010 by Rich Skrenta, presently the CEO of the company, works with an objective to provide better search results than those offered by Google and other search engines by collecting search results from a set of 3 billion trusted websites and excluding the irrelevant information or unimportant links from the search results.

Slash tags

The newly introduced web search engine blekko uses an initiative called slash tags, consisting of a text tag preceded by “/” slashcharacter, to allow ease of searching and categorize searches. System and predefined slash tags allow users to start searching right away and the users can create slash tags after sign up to perform custom sorted searches and to reduce spam.

The new search engine is designed to eliminate spam search results, allowing users to search just a subcategory of the web through its copyrighted slash tag technology. The search engine keeps track of all slash tags which are edited manually and you can create your own slash tags by getting registered and logging in. The search engine also helps you in checking out the particular sites SEO and the back links for the site and you can even flag it or spam it.

Besides all the above mentioned specialties and features, the search engine lays emphasis on two characteristics that are very appealing: transparency and user control.

While the search engine do not discloses its relevance ranking algorithm, it does expose some of the informationit uses to compute it. More importantly, its emphasis on slash tags de-emphasizes default ranking but rather encourages users to take more responsibilityin the information seeking process.

                                                                                                        





















What is the top bar?

The top bar includes the search box and the slash tag bar. The top bar is fixed in place but you can change it in preferences.

Search Box: Enter your query and slash tags and hit enter to search for information. You can also search using more than one slash tag.

Slash tag bar: The slash tag bar is located directly below the search box and contains information about how many results were returned as well as providing additional filtering options.

The main focus of the new search engine blekko is on analyzing the exact search results offered to you and provides contextual search results so you don’t have to waste time in checking out the spams.

The new search engine blekko is a revolutionary way to make a search on the web and certainly omits spam from the generated search results.