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by jsrfded 14y ago
This was a skunkworks project from a 2-person team in mozilla labs doing some thinking around how to get user keystrokes out of the browser-navigation workflow. The extension can be slightly laggy, but when it hits the preview is cool.
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by jsrfded 14y ago
It's easy, just add the site you want to delete from the web to your /spam list or the /slashtag that you're negating out of the results.
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by jsrfded 14y ago
Partitions are based on a hash of the primary key. The number of buckets in the system has to be a power of 2. But we can split buckets to increase the number, or even have some buckets that have split and some that haven't yet. Each bucket
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by jsrfded 14y ago
Paxos would be good for electing a master, but we wanted to avoid having any masters in the architecture. There are also scenarios where paxos can be slow or fail to reach a consensus. We wanted high availability from each node in the clust
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by jsrfded 14y ago
Within the datastore, there are 3 copies of each piece of data. When a get() request is made, it goes out to the "closest" copy; if an answer isn't heard from by some threshold, a 2nd request is made to one of the other replicas. Whoever ge
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by jsrfded 14y ago
Greg has planned a whole series about the combinator architecture behind blekko's datastore. Greg and I have both presented aspects of the system at various conferences, but we're happy to chat about it with you directly too. I think this m
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by jsrfded 15y ago
It didn't make it into the article, but if you use Do Not Track with Firefox blekko will turn on "SuperPrivacy" and not save any logs at all, or pass the query to any third parties.
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by jsrfded 15y ago
His name is spelled Marc Andreessen, please fix the title.
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by jsrfded 15y ago
The big deal for us with this update is automatically applying slashtags to boost quality in 110 categories. You can see the full list of categories we're doing this for in a screenshot in the Search Engine Land post: http://searchenginel
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by jsrfded 16y ago
Random highly-ranked hacker news threads: http://www.skrenta.com/hn/
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by jsrfded 16y ago
The other day I "ran out" of stuff to read on Hacker News. I had looked at everything that interested me, and had even checked out page 2 (I was getting desperate). I realized that there were thousands of great HN threads that I hadn't see
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Random Hacker News(skrenta.com)
8 points by jsrfded 16y ago|1 comments
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by jsrfded 16y ago
The full list of programming related slashtags that are being co-edited is here: http://www.skrenta.com/2011/02/blekko_stackoverflow_better_p...
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by jsrfded 16y ago
I thought it was hilarious. Agree that the poster is an outlier.
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by jsrfded 16y ago
blekko has that feature. every result has a "spam" button underneath it. Click the link, and the host will be added to your personal /spam slashtag. Everything on your /spam list gets negated from all of your results by default. Very hand
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Visualize your PageRank(petewarden.typepad.com)
30 points by jsrfded 16y ago|9 comments
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by jsrfded 16y ago
We had the same debate at blekko. We nearly set up a blog.blekko.com, but corporate blogs can get so boring and impersonal. Writing on skrenta.com as the ceo of blekko helps me keep the tone more direct and avoid simply pushing the business
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by jsrfded 16y ago
Really good feedback - thank you. You would think I would actually link to blekko.com in my post about our new partnership. The post could definitely have used some more expository material about who we are and what we're doing. That stuff
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by jsrfded 16y ago
(I'm posting a comment I initially was privately drafting for ryan in an email.) I posted the article - and included the embargo paras, which my co-founder and I nearly cut - because I thought the backstory would be useful/interesting to th
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by jsrfded 16y ago
btw, when the WSJ broke our embargo, I was on my way into the office. We were planning to get there around 3-4pm for the 9pm PT launch. Some folks were already there and turned the site live since the first press had gone up. But techcrun
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Anatomy of blekko's press launch(skrenta.com)
52 points by jsrfded 16y ago|27 comments
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by jsrfded 16y ago
We have our own crawl/index/serve technology end-to-end. We have a 3 billion page web crawl, a machine-learning trained ranker, and then the slashtag vertical features. Since BOSS gives us an additional 20-40B pages for very long tail queri
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by jsrfded 16y ago
This is Monday press... The press was supposed to go live at midnight on Nov 1 (so you can be in the papers on Monday). The Wall Street Journal broke our embargo by 5 hours.
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by jsrfded 16y ago
We're trying not to go down on launch day like cuil.com did. It's not an exclusionary thing, it's trying to keep the site up & responsive despite a flood of traffic. WolframAlpha hit >2000qps at launch, which would kill us. Neverth
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by jsrfded 16y ago
You can embed a slashtag search box on your own site. And you can hit us on rss by adding /rss to any search. We intend to fill out more APIs after the launch. The goal was to first get the site open to humans..
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by jsrfded 16y ago
Given the CLI syntax we're pushing in the search box, we were looking for a novel way to describe it. "Hashtag" caught on pretty well on twitter, so we figured with the / modifier in front of what are essentially category tags, "slash tag"
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by jsrfded 16y ago
I got my apple 2 out of storage, and my 11 year old son got addicted to Apple Galaxian. Was one of my favorite games, I thought it was interesting that even though he played modern xbox and wii games he could get so wrapped up in a game tha
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by jsrfded 16y ago
That's a good idea, thanks. We'll add something along those lines...
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by jsrfded 16y ago
blekko lets you slash out individual sites from the search results. The exclusion just applies to you so spammers can't downvote reasonable sites. Has been popular to eliminate ehow.com from results. ehow isn't enough over the line for us
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by jsrfded 16y ago
Normal. Most people aren't interested in most of the stuff out there. Your site will be interesting to 1% of the people, you need to go wider than friends & family and try to find the audience that wants to be in your site.

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