Author Archives: Greg

About Greg

Greg is the CTO of blekko

Cracking the Search Category Problem

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Greg

We’ve been reading all the articles, reviews, and blog postings about the new izik tablet search app with great interest. The most common questions we’ve been asked are about the categories that we divide the results into: where do they … Continue reading →

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blekko donates search data to Common Crawl

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Greg

At blekko, we believe the web and search should be open and transparent — it’s number one in the blekko Bill of Rights. To make web data accessible, blekko gives away our search results to innovative applications using our API. … Continue reading →

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Tech Talk About blekko’s Operations Monitoring Infrastructure

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Greg

On September 28, I gave a talk at the Surge conference in Baltimore, titled “Monitoring and Debugging Big Clusters Running Real-Time NoSQL Apps”. Here’s the abstract: Running a big NoSQL cluster used for data-mining Map/Reduce jobs in production is challenging, … Continue reading →

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A new blekko search tutorial

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Greg

There is a new blekko search tutorial over on the blekko help website. It starts with the basics and then describes blekko’s advanced features, most of which do things which you just can’t do on any other search engine! It … Continue reading →

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Technology at blekko

Posted on October 16, 2012 by Greg

Whenever I speak at conferences, someone always asks about the technology that drives blekko. Here’s a peek into the scale and the technology behind our search engine. A whole-web search engine needs to crawl and index billions of webpages. It’s … Continue reading →

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Powering web apps with the blekko API

Posted on October 15, 2012 by Greg

You’re familiar with the blekko.com website, but you might not know that blekko also has an API, which enables programmers to write programs that run searches at blekko, and do interesting things with the results. One well known example is … Continue reading →

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Searching without PageRank

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Greg

… implemented in an hour (!) [ Discuss this post on Hacker News ] I recently saw a nice Hacker News discussion about millionshort.com, an experimental search engine that makes it easy to search the web, minus the million most … Continue reading →

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Searching the bottom of the web

Posted on January 11, 2000 by Greg
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