Because of the limitations on typing on a tablet, combined with the search-and-explore mentality of tablet searchers, tablet queries tend to be short and the paradigm of 10 blue links as search results doesn’t make sense on these devices,” said...
Blekko CEO Rich Skrenta confirmed the change to a subscription model and told Search Engine Land, “We offer the only web-wide set of ranking, backlinks, anchortext, duptext, and other associated raw ranking data which is validated by an associated...
Rich Skrenta, CEO of Blekko, believes the solution lies in new web technology, including ideas of expert search curation (as presented by Blekko search), social vetting (as with Facebook), and user-driven responses to questions (as with Quora).
Rich Skrenta, CEO of Blekko, told Search Engine Watch that Yandex has joined as a strategic investor meaning that they may provide resources to the developing search engine. Skrenta told SEW that the current challenge for Blekko is to improve the...
CEO Rich Skrenta noted that the products Apple has brought to market have done far more damage to Microsoft than the Department of Justice lawsuit they faced in the 1990s. The success of Google should be applauded on Capitol Hill, not derided...
In the official press release, Rich Skrenta, CEO of Blekko, stated, "Foodily’s trusted community of cooks and food lovers will be a tremendous resource to Blekko searchers. Slashtags let users specify what they want to search for (/liberal, /vegan...
Byron Gordon, SEO-PR, interviews Rich Skrenta, CEO of Blekko, on the exhibitor floor at SES New York 2011. If you attended SES New York 2001, then you probably saw the opening keynote, about 20 percent of the 70+ sessions, and a big batch of the...
Google didn't actually take anyone out, they just reshuffled the deck," Rich Skrenta, chief executive of Blekko, told the New York Times. If you make a machine to print money [an ad network], people will exploit it," Skrenta said.
She said, "Rich Skrenta, Blekko's co-founder and chief executive, says that since Google started, the Web has been overrun by unhelpful sites full of links and keywords that push them to the top of Google's search results but offer little relevant...
The reasoning for the spam clock, according to Blekko CEO Rich Skrenta: Last month, the newest search engine introduced the spam clock, which announced that 1 million new spam pages are created every hour.
Pursuing the vision to create a 'spam-free' search engine Rich Skrenta, Blekko founder, realized that they were missing a trick. All you need to do is, append the new slashtag to your query - /likes. Basically the new /likes slashtag limits results...
Rich Skrenta's search engine startup, Blekko, will be acquired by Yahoo even before it comes out of beta. Last week, we shared some New Years Resolutions from several search marketers and social media marketers.
Matt goes on to provide a couple of examples, one of which uses Rich Skrenta's blog to show that a blog post he had been reading made it into the Google index in less than 1 hour after it was posted. In the case of the Rich Skrenta blog, the...
Skrenta Steps Down at TopixRich Skrenta, CEO of news aggregator and local search site Topix since its launch five years ago, is stepping down from his position. New Call for Case StudiesIf you have an interesting SEO or PPC optimization story to...
Skrenta Steps Down at TopixRich Skrenta, CEO of news aggregator and local search site Topix since its launch five years ago, is stepping down from his position. Interview with blinkx on new video search distribution partnerships with Lycos...
Rich Skrenta, Google, Vertical SearchRich Skrenta, CEO of Topix, recently offered up some strategies for beating Google. Clicktracks Releases Click Fraud Detection for Smaller BusinessesClicktracks Web analytics will launch a new product for SMBs...
Rich Skrenta, Google, Vertical SearchRich Skrenta, CEO of Topix, recently offered up some strategies for beating Google. No Action for Triple XICANN Board members rejected the application for a new .xxx top level domain yesterday.
Not Topix.net's Rich Skrenta, that's for sure. Are Google's moves to expand its footprint into new areas a precursor to launching a behavioral targeting network? WebFetch, new meta search engine, launches in UKIn addition to web search results from...
It's also dropped the ".net" and will begin branding itself using the newly acquired ".com" version of its name, Topix CEO Rich Skrenta announced on the Topix blog, and further opined about on his Skrentablog in a post tellingly titled, "What do...
Rich Skrenta, the CEO of Topix, recently offered up some thoughts about Strategies for Beating Google. In this context, even though being #1 would obviously better, being a solid #2 may well be an OK place to be (my thoughts, not Rich's).
