vendredi 4 février 2011

Blekko search comes to iPhone, Android

blekko Blekko search comes to iPhone, Android

If you're tired of Google or Bing, you should verify Blekko search for Android and the iPhone because it uses human curation in an attempt to provide more relevant results.

If you do not know, Blekko research takes a different approach to find stuff on the web. When you go to the main page, there is just a search box that appears identical to Google or Bing, although the difference with this approach is that it uses human curation to help find results. You can connect to your Facebook friends to your Blekko account and you can then filter by slashtags. Theoretically, this is supposed to allow you to filter specifically on the topics you're looking for, and she puts lots of trust who you follow.

"In a world where people want more relevant answers on the go, mobile research becomes increasingly more important," said Rich Skrenta, CEO of Blekko, in a prepared statement. "With our iPhone and Android application, users can use slashtags custom, friends, experts and the community to get the most relevant results from the mobile device."

The application looks designed for iPhone and Android also lets you connect your account to Office on the road. You can also add slashtags from the phone, add data in real-time and even access SEO, when you're on a phone.

It will still be a difficult challenge for Blekko break this market, Google has a stranglehold on the market of Office and he won quickly the ground in the mobile space with Android and its plethora of applications. Bing has also been quietly innovating mobile, as this is the default on the platform search within Windows Phone 7 and iPhone applications were even better with features like location-aware voice search.