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Re:Ask HN: What are some indicators that a company will have... by Animats on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @02:56PM (#14850787)
Blekko exited by selling to IBM. That was a pure technology buy; the public search engine was killed.
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Re:Ask HN: What are some indicators that a company will have... by ChuckMcM on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @07:43PM (#14852800)
True and true, but I'm not sure what you were trying to say. Blekko never did discover the secret to competing with the #1 and #2 search engine companies spending over $5B a year to buy search traffic :-). However IBM found great value in a technology that could effectively crawl and index billions of pages, that is, remarkably, still a hard problem even today.
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