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For example, Skrenta is transparent about the fact that the "Health" slashtag has omitted alternative medicine sites.
CEO Of New Search Engine Blekko: 'I Don't Want To Kill Google' The Huffington Post 2010
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"I want material authored by doctors," Skrenta says of the slashtag.
CEO Of New Search Engine Blekko: 'I Don't Want To Kill Google' The Huffington Post 2010
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(Learn more here) Search for "iPad/Technology" on Blekko, for example, will offer you only results from the 50-or-so set of tech sites contained within the Technology slashtag.
CEO Of New Search Engine Blekko: 'I Don't Want To Kill Google' The Huffington Post 2010
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Blekko hopes to apply a Wikipedia model to search: everyone and anyone is invited to create and edit "slashtags" around different categories (i.e. gossip, health, technology, news), which users can then use to limit the results of their search to the set of pre-defined, curated websites included within that slashtag.
CEO Of New Search Engine Blekko: 'I Don't Want To Kill Google' The Huffington Post 2010
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Blekko CEO Rich Skrenta sees the figure as proof that the slashtag approach is resonating with users.
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If you are doing searches by date, as my students were, Blekko allows you to add the slashtag "/date" to the end of your query and retrieve information in a chronological fashion.
TechCrunch Vivek Wadhwa 2011
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Blekko crowdsources the editorial judgment for what should and should not be in a slashtag, as Wikipedia does.
TechCrunch Vivek Wadhwa 2011
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More correctly, each slashtag represents a collection of web sites on a particular topic.
Search Engine Optimization and Marketing News provided by Cumbrowski.com 2010
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Search engines like Google and Bing do explain some of the key factors in their ranking algorithms, but Blekko takes things to an entirely new level with the/rank slashtag.
Search Engine Optimization and Marketing News provided by Cumbrowski.com 2010
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Beyond slashtag searches, Blekko can have relevancy issues with its "regular" results.
Search Engine Optimization and Marketing News provided by Cumbrowski.com 2010
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