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.