Search underdog Blekko gets serious, makes major improvements (exclusive)

December 21, 2011 9:54 AM Jennifer Van Grove
Jennifer Van Grove

With 1.5 million unique users and 70 to 80 million queries per month, search upstart Blekko isn’t big enough to sit at the adult search table with Google, Yahoo or Microsoft. But don’t tell that to Blekko.

Fed up with …

Saving Chanel, but losing the web

November 30, 2011 12:18 PM Rich Skrenta

Guest Post

Much to the dismay of pretty much everyone on the web, a federal judge decided yesterday to allow luxury brand Chanel to seize and shutter 228 web domains that it argued offered counterfeit versions of its products.

The decision, and …

Search startup Blekko closes $30M funding round

September 30, 2011 8:38 AM Tom Cheredar
Tom Cheredar

Ambitious search engine startup Blekko has closed a new $30 million funding round, the company announced today.

Unlike search giant Google, Blekko uses slashtags to help filter results, which means it searches only the sites you want and discards the …