Blekko launch
Blekko has launched and is now in public beta. You can now go to blekko.com and do searches.
It has been an exciting and wonderful two and a half plus years at Blekko so far and have been eagerly looking forward to this launch day.
I am putting together a list of pointers to news coverage on the launch. Will try to update as often as I can.
Our official launch day is Nov 1st. So we were planning to open up the site at 9 PM PT (on Halloween). But WSJ broke the embargo by a few hours and came out with their article around 4PM. So we had huddle up and open the site to everyone.
First coverage from WSJ: Blekko.com Taps Users to Narrow Results, Avoid Spam Sites
Next, Danny Sullivan of SearchEngineLand wrote about us: Blekko the slashtag search engine goes live
Followed by Mashable: Alternative Search Engine Blekko Launches to Eliminate Spam in Search
And NYTimes wrote : A New Search Engine, Where Less Is More
Meanwhile the #blekko tweets on twitter is sky-rocketing.
Our own CEO Rich Skrenta’s blog post on the launch: Crowdsourcing search relevance
And Mike Markson’s post (VP of Marketing): Blekko /Steelers Search Embed Lets Me Slash the Web From My Blog!
More coverage:
BBC: An alternative to Google search?
Wired: With Help from You, New Search Engine Slashes Through Spam
NPR: ‘Blekko’ Search Site Takes On Google, Bling
A short video clip from ABC: TechBytes: Blekko Search Engine
Another detailed article from SearchEngineLand: Google And Blekko Head-To-Head: Blekko Lives To Fight Another Day
And one more from SearchEngineLand on our SEO tools: Blekko’s SEO Tools: What Information Do They Provide?
Slashdot-ted: Blekko Launches a Search Engine With Bias
Motley Fool: Why You’ll Love This Awfully Named Business
SFGate: One Reason To Take New Search Engine Blekko Seriously
InformationWeek: Blekko Social Search Challenges Google
NYDailyNews: Blekko, new search engine, takes aim at Google by providing spam-free search results
From Chron: Blekko, a new search engine, slashes at Google
HowStuffWorks: Blekko – a new search engine that hopes to take on Google
MIT Technology Review: Power to the People
Technologizer: Blekko, an Interesting First Draft of a New Way to Search the Web
CNET: Blekko launches the biased search engine
IDG: Blekko execs talk search engine strategy
SEOBook : Interview with Skrenta
Digital Trends: Search engine Blekko launches; eliminates spam
Reuters: Search engine Blekko to rely on the human touch
BusinessWire: Blekko Launches Search Engine, Bringing Large-Scale Human Curation to Search
ZDNet: Blekko: Cool for the geekorati, but no Google killer
The Straits Times: Blekko banks on ‘human touch’
There was an article at marketingpilgrim over the weekend at marketingpilgrim about us.
GizmosForGeeks writes New Search Engine Blekko debuts, aims for #3 spot
PCWorld : Meet Blekko, A New Search Engine With Slashtags
Tech2 article: Blekko, The Slasher Search Engine
Of course, it is very easy to follow all news on blekko at blekko itself with the [blekko /date] query.
And the blogs on blekko’s launch with the [blekko /blogs /date] query.
Here is the link to the discussion at Hacker News.
I am Krishna at Blekko. Check out my slashtags there!