More about Blekko’s Slashtags:

Blekko uses an idea called slashtags, which makes searching easily and easy to categorise. There are lot of system slashtags and pre-defined slashtags, which are in place to allow users to start searching right away. /slashtags can be created by anyone on signup. This idea was based on the following bill, thought up by the owner of blekko:

1. Search shall be open
2. Search results shall involve people
3. Ranking data shall not be kept secret
4. Web data shall be readily available
5. There is no one-size-fits-all for search
6. Advanced search shall be accessible
7. Search engine tools shall be open to all
8. Search & community go hand-in-hand
9. Spam does not belong in search results
10. Privacy of searchers shall not be violated

Features of slashtags

Here is a list of features readily available for all users to access:

* SEO Statistics
* Linking pages (in and out stats)
* IP lookup
* Cached pages
* Tagging of pages
* Creating and searching /slashtags
* Finding duplicate content
* Comparing sites
* Crawl statistics
* Page Count
* Robots.txt location
* Cohosted sites
* Page latency
* Page length