Blekkobot — What It Is and How to Handle It

Blekkobot was the crawler for Blekko, an independent search engine known for "slashtags" that allowed filtered searches. Blekko was acquired by IBM in 2015.

Operator: Blekkobot | Type: Search Engine | Category: Search Engine

Blekkobot is a search engine crawler. Blocking it may affect your visibility in its associated search engine. Most publishers choose to allow verified search engine crawlers.

Centinel automatically detects Blekkobot using behavioral fingerprinting. When detected, you can allow it, block it, challenge it with an interstitial page, or set a per-request licensing fee — all enforced in real-time with under 2ms latency.