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Blekko Unmasks New Search Results With “Zorro” Update
Blekko, the hard-line anti-spam search site, has revamped their search results page format on the front- and back-end. Known as "Zorro," the update changes visual elements, removes clutter, and adds automatic support for over a thousand slashtags.
Google Hits the Billion Monthly Unique Visitors Mark
Roughly one in seven people around the world visit Google monthly. How do we know? Google has just become the first company to break the billion visitor mark for the monthly unique visitor metric, according to comScore.
Blekko Now Powers RSS Searches on Flipboard
Blekko made more moves in the search space today, announcing a partnership with Flipboard the app for iPad. Blekko will now power ... read more
Blekko Respects Your /privacy, Will Trash Search Data After 48 Hours
While Yahoo recently announced plans to join Google and Bing in retaining search logs for 18 months, Blekko has gone in the ... read more
Google’s New Search Layout Test: Borrowing From Blekko & DuckDuckGo?
A test of a new Google search results layout caused a mixed reaction from users on Twitter and blogs over the weekend.
Wolfram|Alpha & DuckDuckGo Conspire to Eat Google’s Lunch
Wolfram|Alpha have officially partnered with DuckDuckGo - who will be fully integrating their open API. This will enable DuckDuckGo to provide 'instant answers' from Wolfram|Alpha's computational knowledge engine.
Panda, Google’s High Quality Sites Algorithm, Officially Adopts User Feedback As Search Signal
So the rumors are true. Pandapocalypse is coming to a location near you. But if your site is not english language, you ... read more
Blekko AdSpam Algorithm Finds, Eliminates Spam
Blekko is touting “the first search algorithm ever created to find spam rather than rank results,” AdSpam. Its purpose is to detect ... read more
Who is Behind the Successful PR Campaign Poking Holes in Google’s Search Quality?
It appears someone has launched a successful PR campaign poking holes in Google’s search quality. Why do I think someone has launched ... read more
Bing Extends Facebook Likes to All U.S. Search Results
If you live in the U.S. and have connected Bing to your Facebook account, you should now see integrated Facebook Likes whenever ... read more