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Blekko Launches a Search Engine With Bias
Pickens writes "Previous specialized search engines including Cuil, Hakia, Powerset, Clusty, and RedZ — each had a special trick, but they've all faded from memory, some after crashing in flames, some after making their founders rich. Now Rafe Needleman reports at Cnet that along comes Blekko, whose claim to fame is that you can tilt your search results in the direction you like by using a category of bias, like 'liberal' or 'conservative.' Categorization lists are applied by appending a 'slashtag.' The query, 'climate change /conservative' will give you politically slanted results, for example. 'Climate change /science' will restrict your results to hits from scientific Web sites. Blekko won't have a real, Web-wide impact unless its concept — that bias is good and more aggressive search filtering is needed — gets some traction, writes Needleman. But 'Blekko is a solid alternative to Google and Bing for anyone, and more importantly it's got great potential for researchers, librarians, journalists, or anyone who's willing to put some work into how their search engine functions in order to get better results.'"
This has been my home page for a while. (You can get invites from their twitter). What sold me was kittens /liberal vs kittens /conservative
It is very convincing. "Niggers /politicalcorrectness" gave results explaining a global movement to make tough-minded adults into a bunch of whiney immature crybabies who get their panties in a bunch over nothing more than a word they don't like, and then of course it's (da-da-dah-dum-da-da!) government and/or mass media to the rescue! in the form of censorship, stigma, etc. Oh, it also involved adults (well, chronological adults anyway) calling it the "n-word" sort of like a small child would describe a cuss word like "awww, she said the s-word". Similar results were found for "Illegal aliens /politicalcorrectness" documenting that it is wrong to call them "illegal aliens". The correct term is "unregistered Democrats". Finally, "islamic terrorists /politicalcorrectness" referred me to pages advocating that we never, ever profile ethnic Islamic people from particular countries even though that really is where all of the terrorism is coming from and should continue strip-searching little old ladies because somebody might get their feelings hurt if we didn't.
It's an impressive search engine.
join in. It ca8 be shit-filled,