Blekko Reaches a Million Searches Per Day

Blekko, a search engine that is still in beta after three months of use on the public web, has reached an amazing milestone: a million searches per day. This figure is a figure sufficient to let this search engine run profitably, and opens up the possibilities of greater growth, investment, hiring, and additional features. How […]


Blekko Bans 1.1 Million Domain Names

While Blekko, a search engine devoted to fighting spam on the Web, may not have started the anti-Google-spam media rush in late 2010 and early 2011, they certainly exploited it. In a way, Blekko served as the center of the hurricane, with outside companies and media groups pointing to the fledgling search site as an […]


Google Panda Update Prompts Quality Revamps

While Google was developing their latest major algorithm update for well over a year, the exact details and release time-frame were undoubtedly impacted by the anti-spam media buzz in late 2010. The update in the Google algorithm (known as the “Panda Update“) ousted a large number of “content farms,” or sites that provide bulk amounts […]