The January figures for Blekko’s alternative, human-curated search engine have been released on Monday. It is now said to average around 1 million queries a day and between 10 to 15 queries per second. And these figures have been recorded just three months after the launch.

The topic tags auto-fired or attached by users to queries to restrict the search results to those from curated sets of websites, is the secret to Blekko’s success. Around 110,000 human-curated slashtags have been reported by Blekko.

“We’re happy at how quickly users have adopted the idea of a new search engine and have created so many quality slashtags just three months since launch”, said Blekko CEO Rich Skrenta.

Google has almost 66.6% of market share in the U. S and Blekko’s fight with Google stepped up when recently it eliminated all results from 20 content farm sites it labeled as spam.

Blekko founder Mike Markson and Skrenta both are said to have looked grounded in the reality that Blekko would not be making a dent in Google’s search share anytime soon. The duo are said to have said that it could be a profitable company at 1 million to 2 million queries per day.

Ever since Blekko had been found in the year 2007, it has raised around $24 million.