Blekko Partners With Stack Overflow To Improve Search Results

Good move by both companies.

In South Korea, Naver dominated the search market with a combination of algorithmic search and Q&A. Back in 2006 when I was doing web strategy at Microsoft we proposed a similar plan ... instead they killed the Q&A product. Oh well. Still, the idea's a sound one, so it's great to see it moving forward.

Blekko has become my go-to engine when I'm looking for something in a specific category.

Google (currently) does best when I'm doing a text search to find the original source of an article or trying to look up an error message, but I'm sure that gap will disappear as Blekko indexes more pages and improves its algorithms.

The full list of programming related slashtags that are being co-edited is here: http://www.skrenta.com/2011/02/blekko_stackoverflow_better_p...

Interesting partnership that brings human experts to search curation and will surely kill more spam!