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This was a skunkworks project from a 2-person team in mozilla labs doing some thinking around how to get user keystrokes out of the browser-navigation workflow. The extension can b…

It's easy, just add the site you want to delete from the web to your /spam list or the /slashtag that you're negating out of the results.

Partitions are based on a hash of the primary key. The number of buckets in the system has to be a power of 2. But we can split buckets to increase the number, or even have some bu…

Paxos would be good for electing a master, but we wanted to avoid having any masters in the architecture. There are also scenarios where paxos can be slow or fail to reach a consen…

Within the datastore, there are 3 copies of each piece of data. When a get() request is made, it goes out to the "closest" copy; if an answer isn't heard from by some threshold, a …

Greg has planned a whole series about the combinator architecture behind blekko's datastore. Greg and I have both presented aspects of the system at various conferences, but we're …

It didn't make it into the article, but if you use Do Not Track with Firefox blekko will turn on "SuperPrivacy" and not save any logs at all, or pass the query to any third parties…

His name is spelled Marc Andreessen, please fix the title.

The big deal for us with this update is automatically applying slashtags to boost quality in 110 categories. You can see the full list of categories we're doing this for in a scree…

Random highly-ranked hacker news threads: http://www.skrenta.com/hn/

The other day I "ran out" of stuff to read on Hacker News. I had looked at everything that interested me, and had even checked out page 2 (I was getting desperate). I realized that…

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

I thought it was hilarious. Agree that the poster is an outlier.

blekko has that feature. every result has a "spam" button underneath it. Click the link, and the host will be added to your personal /spam slashtag. Everything on your /spam list g…

We had the same debate at blekko. We nearly set up a blog.blekko.com, but corporate blogs can get so boring and impersonal. Writing on skrenta.com as the ceo of blekko helps me kee…

Really good feedback - thank you. You would think I would actually link to blekko.com in my post about our new partnership. The post could definitely have used some more expository…

(I'm posting a comment I initially was privately drafting for ryan in an email.) I posted the article - and included the embargo paras, which my co-founder and I nearly cut - becau…

btw, when the WSJ broke our embargo, I was on my way into the office. We were planning to get there around 3-4pm for the 9pm PT launch. Some folks were already there and turned the…

We have our own crawl/index/serve technology end-to-end. We have a 3 billion page web crawl, a machine-learning trained ranker, and then the slashtag vertical features. Since BOSS …

This is Monday press... The press was supposed to go live at midnight on Nov 1 (so you can be in the papers on Monday). The Wall Street Journal broke our embargo by 5 hours.

We're trying not to go down on launch day like cuil.com did. It's not an exclusionary thing, it's trying to keep the site up & responsive despite a flood of traffic. WolframAlpha h…

You can embed a slashtag search box on your own site. And you can hit us on rss by adding /rss to any search. We intend to fill out more APIs after the launch. The goal was to firs…