Do You Blekko?
November 9, 2010 by © Joan Miller - Luxegen Genealogy.
Filed under genealogy, Technology
Genealogy Slashtags
There is a new search engine on the block with a strange name – Blekko. Then again Google was once thought to be a strange name.
Blekko’s claim to fame is being able to search ‘crowdsourced slashtags‘. Slashtags are built in search tags such as /blogs or /date or /map or /calendar.
I was interested to see how this would work with my favourite topic: genealogy.
Here are the slashtags I tried on Blekko and the results.
Slashtag Search Term:
genealogy/people
Top 3 results: (results could have a Canadian bias, due to my location)
Dick Eastman - Meet Dick Eastman in Person
Leland Meitzler - Genealogy Blog
Muhammed Ali - Genealogy.com - Ancestry of Muhammad Ali
Slashtag Search Term
genealogy/blog
Top 3 results:
Huntington - www.redneckrealities.com (I was expecting geneabloggers not rednecks 
)
Cambridge police acted ‘stupidly’ - Ben Smith - Comments (1311 - Obama - (another ???)
OGS Conference 2010 (okay…bingo…this is the Ontario Genealogical Society….but the rest? Where did they come from?)
Slashtag Search Term
surname/genealogy
Top 3 results:
Surname Search - Instructions - Surnames - GenForum
SURNAME LISTS - Surnames Lists
Glossary of Surname Meanings & Origins
I also searched a couple of my surnames and locations and found the usual sites (mostly me posting on forums).
Blekko can give tags, seo and other info about a website. Will it be useful for genealogy? Probably. A new search engine might give you different results.
Will Blekko become a verb like Google? Only time will tell.
Would you like to help edit the /genealogy slashtag?
Hi Greg,
I would be delighted to help edit the /genealogy slashtag.
How do I start?
Cheers,
Joan
All you have to do is create an account on Blekko, go look at the /genealogy contents (i.e. type /view /blekko/genealogy into the search box), and apply to be an editor. I’ll go and approve you.