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Blekko, The “Slashtag” Search Engine, Goes Live
- powera 16y agoFrom a quick test, the search engine is pretty bland and unexciting for normal queries, but it motivates you to make different types of queries, where it does have interesting results. For instance, just searching for "china" isn't anything interesting, but the site is begging for you to do "china /tech" instead, where it is interesting (and also traffic in China, Maine, but nobody's perfect).
- powrtoch 16y agoBeing able to limit your search results to e.g. "/liberal" is one of those powers I really don't trust people to use responsibly. Not that it's doing anything 99% of human brains don't do automatically, but still.
- erikstarck 16y agoThe /compare slashtag is pretty cool, as in: https://blekko.com/ws/news.ycombinator.com+/compare?c=slashdot.org https://blekko.com/ws/news.ycombinator.com+/compare?c=slashd...
- ithkuil 16y agoAh I didn't know that there were some special /slashtags, this is even a parametric slashtag...