Chris Gilmer , Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

Just when you thought the search wars died down a little, Blekko is coming to the scene.

Started by former Topix founder, Rich Skrenta, Blekko is hard pressed to take on Google. Skrenta believes that Google has wrecked the web with its PageRank and is on a mission to make Google eat dirt. Backed with a round of $2 Million in seed funding, and a team of five former topix team members and a few early Google employees, Blekko is working on improving indexing and query serving.

With Skrenta’s track record in place, Blekko will be the company to watch in 2008. More about how Blekko is powering up to change search at TechCrunch.