
Blekko hopes to exploit with a new product called Izik - a search engine designed especially for Apple Inc.'s iPads and tablets running Google's Android software. ...

12:17 PM, Jan 05, 2013

b>San Francisco: Blekko, a Silicon Valley startup trying to build a spam-free search engine, is getting some love from Russia. Yandex, the most popular search engine in Russia, is expressing its affinity with a $15 million investment in Blekko and a commitment to share some of its computing power and other technology with its new US partner. Blekko is getting an additional $15 million from another group consisting mostly of...

04:19 PM, Sep 30, 2011

San Francisco: A small Silicon Valley company with some big name backers has released a test version of a new search engine that the company says has a key ingredient that is missing from Google, the human touch. According to Blekko, the Web has increasingly become saturated with spam-like websites, specially designed to pop up in Google's search results but whose content is heavier on marketing pitches than substantive information....

12:48 PM, Nov 01, 2010