New Search Engine Launches With Goal to 'Clean Up Web Search'

A new search engine, Blekko, launched this week, which seeks to take the spam and other useless finds out of Web search. In addition, Blekko offers additional info with each search, such as SEO and link activity.

Blekko searches three billion Web pages, excluding results from sites like Demand Media (which create content based on Web searches), but including vertical search engines. And users can do a search on a specific site or category of sites.

“The goal is to clean up Web search and get all the spam out of it,” founder Rich Skrenta told the New

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