Launched in October amongst great fanfare, “The Third Search Engine” is continuing to get publicity.
But is it getting users?
Does it work?
Like Bing, Blekko realized if they were going to compete with Google, they had to do something different.
Oh yes, and better.
Blekko is different, it adds a more current social media dimension to search with the use of tags generated by yourself and friends. The idea is since such a high percentage of sites are spam, garbage, instead of trying to filter those out, let’s instead select out the actual best sites.
Not a bad idea in theory. It might in fact find a niche in very heavily spammed subjects, if Google doesn’t find a way to cope with them.
So far? Well, I looked at the visits from a client site that had almost 25,000 visitors in the last 30 days. Guess how many visits came from Blekko?
Zero. None. Zip. Bupkus.
I think they have a ways to go….