vangogh
11-02-2010, 12:57 AM
Today the new Blekko search engine was released to the public. They're taking a somewhat different view of search in an effort to compete with Google and many SEOs who were using Blekko as part of the public beta think they have some very good ideas.
You can watch this short video to see what Blekko is all about (http://blekko.com/ws/+/press-videos?h=1).
One of their big ideas is what they call slash tags. You can add them to the end of your query to further refine results. You'll see this in the video, but here's how you might search global warming
global warming - this would be the normal search
global warming /date - this would be a date slash tag and would sort results baed on date
global warming /green - this would be a green slash tag and would sort results to see only green sites
global warming /conservative - this would be a conservative slash tag and would sort results to see only sites with a conservative slant
They have some pre-made slash tags you can use and if you log in you can create your own. There's a social aspect in that people can share their slash tags with friends.
Another nice feature is a spam link below results. If you think a site is spam you can click the link and never see that site in your results again.
One nice feature and the main reason SEOs are excited is they also have an seo link below each result which will show you all sorts of data about the result so you can understand why it ranks where it does. They're being very open with how they rank pages, which is a great thing.
I haven't played with it much yet, but it looks nice so far. I think it may become very useful if you spend time creating slash tags for yourself and I'm looking forward to analyzing the seo data.
You can watch this short video to see what Blekko is all about (http://blekko.com/ws/+/press-videos?h=1).
One of their big ideas is what they call slash tags. You can add them to the end of your query to further refine results. You'll see this in the video, but here's how you might search global warming
global warming - this would be the normal search
global warming /date - this would be a date slash tag and would sort results baed on date
global warming /green - this would be a green slash tag and would sort results to see only green sites
global warming /conservative - this would be a conservative slash tag and would sort results to see only sites with a conservative slant
They have some pre-made slash tags you can use and if you log in you can create your own. There's a social aspect in that people can share their slash tags with friends.
Another nice feature is a spam link below results. If you think a site is spam you can click the link and never see that site in your results again.
One nice feature and the main reason SEOs are excited is they also have an seo link below each result which will show you all sorts of data about the result so you can understand why it ranks where it does. They're being very open with how they rank pages, which is a great thing.
I haven't played with it much yet, but it looks nice so far. I think it may become very useful if you spend time creating slash tags for yourself and I'm looking forward to analyzing the seo data.