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Monday 13 January 2014

Blekko: All Set To Redesign

Blekko recently declared to redesign its website. The idea is to give people a more thorough web search without hassles.

Features of the redesign model

• The search engine plans to use multiple search categories, which will help users get high-quality results with greater efficiency and fewer queries.
• The engine intends to support a responsive model, which will adapt to desktop screen and table screen sizes.
• The new design of the website will feature a novel navigational approach and greater aesthetics to help users have fun while searching, along with getting engaging content.

Slashtag technology

Blekko claims to combine technology with usability to display multiple categories in search engine results. The creators of this engine initially developed a design that let users use slashtags with their search keyword.

The tags separated the wheat from chaff, to be precise, the reliable and relevant websites from billions of spam ones, black hat ones, and link farms.


An improvement in this technology in 2011 resulted in developing the search engine’s ability to show relevant categories without the users needing to type a slash “/” with their search keyword. The developers called this “auto-boosting” of slashtags. This technology increased site usability. However, the users still got the result page with the typical “10 blue links.”

Engineers of Blekko did not rest here. They took a giant leap ahead and developed API feature this year that renders multiple search categories for most search queries. The search engine’s new mobile app “izik” was the first product to leverage this new feature. Now, the engine plans to integrate a bold new design and search approach with this technology.