Comments on: search engine movements : new and old http://www.ponder.co.za/search-engine-movements-new-and-old/ a thought that counts Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:09:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Cobus http://www.ponder.co.za/search-engine-movements-new-and-old/comment-page-1/#comment-11167 Cobus Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:51:34 +0000 http://www.ponder.co.za/?p=575#comment-11167 Weird name but so was Google in the beginning. It might even be that the founders spelled it wrong and the name must have been ‘Blokke’ (with the name of the Co-Founder being Rich Skrenta)like the googol mistake.

They also claim that this is not an Algorithm based Search Engine but rely on human input to be properly rated and with a backing of $24m they might even have something special. But then again this concept was already tested before and failed.

http://www.news-record.com/content/2010/11/02/article/blekko_launches_human_driven_search_engine

And that is my 2 cents worth!

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