You know how you always slow down to rubberneck when you pass a car wreck on the freeway? I’m that way with new search engines. I slow down, I look for the pool of blood, and then I resume my normal ...

Illustration: Steve Lyons Do you need to create your own search engine that provides results about a specific topic, also known as vertical search? A new company called Blekko aims to help you do just ...

Start-ups and big companies alike have tried to take on Google by building a better search engine. That they have failed has not stopped brave new entrants. The latest is Blekko, a search engine that ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

The founders of the newly-released search site Blekko.com have a problem with the way most search engines work. "When you look at the results in Google and Bing, the results are slipping. They are ...

A security researcher says that Blekko is no better than its competition at filtering spam in search results, despite using such claims to promote itself. Blekko launched on November 1, 2010, with the ...

Blekko, a well-funded new search engine that aims to be No. 3 behind Google and Bing, reports that it averaged about 1 million queries a day in its first week of being open to the public. While that's ...

A new search-engine called Blekko just launched. It's the latest in a long line of companies to try to leapfrog Google by providing "better" search results. Specifically, in Blekko's case, the company ...

(AP) -- If Google and Wikipedia were to procreate, their offspring might look something like Blekko, a new search engine with results culled by people, not computer algorithms. The site's users are in ...

The site's users are in charge of assigning tags such as "colleges," "autos" and "recipes" to Web pages indexed by Blekko, much the way Wikipedia users keep the online encyclopedia up to date by ...

Blekko, a new search engine, opened up to the public today in beta form. Um, a new search engine as in something that intends to compete with Google, the Web’s most deeply-entrenched service? Yup.