• Blekko (trademarked as blekko) was a company that provided a web search engine with the stated goal of providing better search results than those offered...
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    programmer and Silicon Valley entrepreneur who created the web search engine blekko. Skrenta Jr. was born in Pittsburgh on June 6, 1967. In 1982, at age 15...
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    opened an office in Istanbul. Also in September 2011, Yandex acquired 10% of Blekko for a $15 million investment as part of a $30 million financing round. In...
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  • 1998, Topix.net with Tom and Michael Markson in 2002, and search engine blekko with Michael Markson and Bryn Dole in 2007. Leonard, Kim (September 1, 2007)...
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    Active Ecosia Active Startpage.com Active, sister engine of Ixquick 2010 Blekko Inactive, sold to IBM Cuil Inactive Yandex (English) Active Parsijoo Active...
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  • Yahoo! in 2003, shut down in 2013) Bixee.com (India) (acquired by Ibibo) Blekko (acquired by IBM in 2015 for its use for Watson-based products) BlogScope...
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  • included .arc files previously. In December 2012, blekko donated to Common Crawl search engine metadata blekko had gathered from crawls it conducted from February...
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    February 2, 2014. Efrati, Amir (November 1, 2010). "Start-Up Aims at Google: Blekko.com Taps Users to Narrow Results, Avoid Spam Sites". Wall Street Journal...
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  • Searches for the purposes of promoting advertising. Another search engine, Blekko also regarded eHow as spam, blacklisted the site and filtered eHow results...
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  • could have made it a Facebook if they wanted." Rich Skrenta, the CEO of Blekko, posted on Twitter an offer to take over GeoCities from Yahoo! in exchange...
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  • discovery, and powered search for the Verizon app store, Best Buy in the UK, Blekko, DuckDuckGo, and many others. The company filed 11 patents for their product...
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    "winning 'an outsourcing contract' worth US$ 1.25B" USA DE March 27, 2015 Blekko Web Search Engine, Cognitive Computing USA Not disclosed April 13, 2015...
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    Kanjoya (acquired by Ultimate Software) Librato (acquired by SolarWinds) Blekko (acquired by IBM) Indextank (acquired by LinkedIn) Rupture (acquired by...
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  • could have made it a Facebook if they wanted." Rich Skrenta, the CEO of Blekko, posted on Twitter an offer to take over GeoCities from Yahoo! in exchange...
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