Blekko, the little search engine that could, has just come off the success of hitting one million search queries day and 30,000 slashtags (human curated search topics like /colleges, /vegan, /blogs) created in it&'s first week of existence.

Now it has taken a unique &''if you can&'t beat them, join &8216'em&'' approach to the search and hooked up with fellow market outlier DuckDuckGo, which like Blekko, is a search engine that prides itself on having more relevant results than Google or Bing with the added bonus of not keeping any of your personally identifiable info.

�a4���ABoth our companies share the same mission of eliminating spam from search so that users get information from the best and most relevant sources on the Web,�a4���� said Blekko CEO Rich Skrenta.

As of today Blekko will incorporate DuckDuckGo&'s Zero-Click Info summaries on a site by site basis, which can be ironically accessed by yes clicking on &''info&'' in the search results while you&'re on Blekko and show up at the top of your query page while on DuckDuckGo.

DuckDuckGo search results will now be powered by Blekko for the following heavy hitting searches: &''personal finance,&''"lyrics,&''"recipes,&''"hotels,&''"health,&''"colleges,&'' and &''autos.&'' Blekko itself has been experimenting with auto-applying slashtags to these categories in order to improve queries, for example using the slashtag /health to cull better results for the search &''cure for colds.&''

DuckDuckGo users will also be able to search for the most recent results with /date, which is actually my favorite feature on Blekko and is especially useful if you&'re looking for news articles or blog posts or any thing chronological.

Blekko has come up with some highly original ways to keep users coming back (check out itsa4s��SEO tools) and I wouldn&'t be surprised if DuckDuckGo isn&'t the last partnership we see from the well coffered search engine. Says Skrenta&''We got a lot of money in the bank [$24 million to be exact]a4s��so we�a4���a4�re not going anywhere.�a4����

You can check out our TCTV interview with Skrenta here and our full review of Blekko here. CrunchBase InformationBlekkoDuck Duck GoInformation provided by CrunchBase