Some random thoughts: I'm really happy to see this open up live. I think it's about time someone tried to "take on Google" - the competition will be great for

Some random thoughts: I'm really happy to see this open up live. I think it's about time someone tried to "take on Google" - the competition will be great for us users, and it looks like Blekko might be a serious contender. I love the fact that they've taken the concept of the "search box as the new cli/all purpose interface", and extended it. That's basically what they're doing, after all - giving every user customizable cli commands they can use to search smarter. The big question is, will this kind of thing catch on with "normal" users? I'm not so sure, but I hope so. I don't understand why they're sticking to the name "Blekko". It's pretty obvious the word they're really pushing is "slashtag", so why not go buy that domain and call themselves slashtag? Makes a lot more sense to me. If you're trying to get people to remember you, and you're spending so much time on pushing the term slashtag, at least make that the way to find you. (And no, Googling "slashtag" only turn up Blekko as a 5th result or so.) I love that they make their SEO/ranking system very public and very accessible. This is an interesting strategy - developers are more inclined to optimize for the tools they understand most, and developers sometimes drive later adoption.