Nowhere has the need for a more diverse search market been more apparent than this week's revelation that Bing was cribbing Google's notes. While Microsoft VP Harry Shum and Google's Matt Cutts squabbled on a panel together at the Farsight 2011 conference, Blekko CEO Rich Skrenta looked on, more a human symbol of the call for greater market diversity than anything else. Earlier in the week Blekko made the decision that it would block content farms like Demand Media's eHow and AnswerBag and now is announcing another milestone, over 30 million search queries in January and over 110K slashtags created since its launch in November. This breaks down to about 10-15 search queries a second and over 1 million searches a day, which is at levels over its original traffic spike at launch. In contrast, Google was serving over 88 billion searches a month at last count (the 2010 Comscore numbers have yet to come out as far as I can see).
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