Blekko founder Rich Skrenta said the new search results empower users to get to the best content for any given query, rather than scanning through a "list of blue links. Blekko, the "spam-free" search engine is on a mission to differentiate from...
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...
A few of the searches are linked to slashtags that help curate content, according to Rich Skrenta, Blekko founder and CEO. We're still ironing out the kinks," Skrenta said. Skrenta estimates search traffic is worth between $50 and $100 CPMs.
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. Each of the search sites is making it easier to browse through recipes.
It's a tremendous opportunity to partner with a great brand and an outstanding product that delivers such an awesome experience for its readers," said Rich Skrenta, CEO of blekko. Blekko made more moves in the search space today, announcing a...
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...
Your beloved engineer Matt Cutts is about to be on a panel with Harry Shum, Corporate VP of Core Search Development at Microsoft, and Rich Skrenta of Blekko. "You wake up in the morning, your paint's peeling, your curtains are gone, and the water...
The reasoning for the spam clock, according to Blekko CEO Rich Skrenta: In an effort to combat web spam, Blekko will block from its search results 20 of the worst-offending SERP clogging content farms, including Demand Media's eHow and Answerbag...
The main panel will have Matt Cutts, Google's Spam Czar, Harry Shum, not the "Glee" cast member but the head of Core Search Development of Microsoft, and replacing what once would have been a rep from Yahoo or Ask, co-founder and CEO of Blekko...
Pursuing the vision to create a 'spam-free' search engine Rich Skrenta, Blekko founder, realized that they were missing a trick. Search engine upstart, Blekko, has done in weeks, what seems to have taken Bing months to do - integrate Facebook like...
Both our companies share the same mission of eliminating spam from search so that users get information from the best and most relevant sources on the Web," said Rich Skrenta, CEO of Blekko. Blekko and DuckDuckGo have formed an alliance against...
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.
PageRank wrecked the web, Rich Skrenta That's not surprising, considering that there were a total of 144 different speakers who participated in one of the 69 panels, sessions, workshops or keynotes at the event.
PageRank wrecked the web, Rich Skrenta Want a snapshot of the day's search marketing news? Here we've collected today's top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines from around the Web:
