Rich Skrenta, founder of Blekko on This Week in Startups #123

Tired of bad search results on Google? Meet Blekko.com. This week Founder Rich Skrenta schools us on the amazing power of search. Oh yeah this guy also created the first widespread virus on the Apple II back in the 80's. Watch and Learn!


Rich Skrenta Founder of Blekko

6:00-7:00           Welcome to the show. Why did it take over 3 years to Launch Blekko?
7:00-9:00           What was the secret to keeping the investors at Bay for so long?
9:00-11:00          Why is Blekko Different from other search engines?
11:00-12:00        How many servers does it take to run a search engine?
12:00-14:00        Whats in Blekkos secret sauce?
14:00-19:00        The problem with low quality content and content farms?
19:00-22:00        How does Blekko determine which sites to crawl?
22:00-26:00        How do you determine intent and expertise of content?
26:00-29:00        How does Social Search work?
29:00-34:00        Whats next for Blekko?
34:00-36:00        Ad
36:00-42:00        Ask Jason

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Comments

[Sam]

audio guy should be fired.