IBM Watson Acquires Technology from Blekko

Re:IBM Watson Acquires Technology from Blekko by Animats on Sunday March 29, 2015 @06:41PM (#9286770)

Now that's a surprise. I didn't think Blekko was doing much more than reselling Yandex and adding some social features. Yandex has an $30M equity stake in Blekko - did IBM buy that out?

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Re:IBM Watson Acquires Technology from Blekko by greenstork on Sunday March 29, 2015 @07:05PM (#9286835)

I was in touch with Blekko about a year ago regarding using their api to access their index for search results for my own meta-search engine. They might have used Yandex to augment their search results, but Blekko definitely had its own index as well.

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Re:IBM Watson Acquires Technology from Blekko by thomasfoster96 on Sunday March 29, 2015 @07:49PM (#9286965)

Blekko had a sizeable index of their own. Most successful meta-search engines (like DuckDuckGo) keep their own index because there's not a lot they can get from a Yandex api call.

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Re:IBM Watson Acquires Technology from Blekko by greenstork on Monday March 30, 2015 @12:11AM (#9287610)

My understanding is actually the opposite. While DuckDuckGo does have a small index of their own, they mainly rely on api calls to Yandex and Yahoo BOSS!

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Re:IBM Watson Acquires Technology from Blekko by thomasfoster96 on Monday March 30, 2015 @12:42AM (#9287691)

They do rely upon the API calls, but their spam elimination requires full web pages, not just what you get from an API call.

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