Blekko has launched Sunday and people are wrongly wondering whether it is a Google killer.
Henry Blodget, from SAI thinks it is doomed. It may be but his arguments are false.
1. For the most part, search isn’t broken.
Blekko is not meant to fix it.
2. When search IS broken, the problem is usually not Demand Media content. It’s because the question you’re asking generally isn’t well-suited to being answered by algorithmic search.
Man or Ash? People ask what they feel is the most intuitive query. Yes, they adapt their questions to algorithms but anyway, this argument is wrong.
3. Normal people haven’t the faintest idea what “slashtags” are or why they would ever want to use them.
Normal people want to ask Google: where is my grandson? If change is innovative, people will adapt.
Now, what does doomed mean? Doomed like Cuil?
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