Blekko (trademarked as blekko) was a company that provided a

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with the stated goal of providing better search results than those offered by

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, with results gathered from a set of 3 billion trusted webpages and excluding such sites as content farms. The company's site, launched to the public on November 1, 2010, used slashtags to provide results for common searches. Blekko also offered a downloadable search bar. It was acquired by

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in March 2015, and the service was discontinued.

Toolbar

Blekko offered a downloadable browser toolbar or search bar which changes default search and

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URLs of the user's

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s.{{cite web , url=http://help.blekko.com/index.php/i-downloaded-the-toolbar-and-some-settings-changed-on-my-ie-browser-how-do-i-change-them-back/ , last=Watson , first=Cheralyn , title=How do I remove blekko as my homepage and default search engine in Internet Explorer (IE)? , date=January 12, 2012 , publisher=help.blekko.com , access-date=April 10, 2012 , url-status=dead , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120420214739/http://help.blekko.com/index.php/i-downloaded-the-toolbar-and-some-settings-changed-on-my-ie-browser-how-do-i-change-them-back/ , archive-date=April 20, 2012 , df=mdy-all

Reception

In 2010,

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described the site as adding "so much weird dimensionality" to search, and recommended it as "the best out-of-the-chute new engine I've seen in the last 10 years". Dvorak, John C.br>"Blekko: The Newest Search Engine"
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'', November 1, 2010. Accessed November 1, 2010. In Matthew Rogers' review of the site, he found it "slow and cumbersome", and stated that he did not understand the necessity or utility for slashtags.{{cite web, url=http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/11/01/blekko-the-slashtag-search-engine-is-slow-cumbersome-and-ju/ , title=Blekko, the "Slashtag" search engine is slow, cumbersome, and just plain broken, publisher=DownloadSquad.switched.com, date=November 1, 2010, author=Rogers, Matthew In his PCMag.com review, Jeffrey L. Wilson expressed approval of some search results, but criticized the site's social features which "bog down the search experience."{{cite web , url=https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2372082,00.asp , title=Blekko, publisher=PCMag.com , date=November 3, 2010, author=Wilson, Jeffrey L.

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External links

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