Gigablast

Information about Gigablast

Gigablast Inc.

	Search Engine
Founded	2000
Headquarters	United States of America
Industry	Internet

Gigablast is an online search engine run by Matt Wells. Wells was employed by Infoseek until 2000^[1] when he decided to run his own search engine and wrote the code for Gigablast from scratch.

Overview

Gigablast is designed to be capable of indexing a high number of webpages per server^[2], and while Gigablast Inc. says it has succeeded in this area, the engine doesn't have all the options of many other search engines, the most notable among them being the lack of an image search and the lack of special tools to bring targeted results for a user.

Gigablast has an index of approximately 10 billion web pages and serves millions of queries per day^[3]^[4]. Like many search engines, Gigablast also can search pages in various languages; entering a search in a language other than English brings up results in the language of the search^[5].

Features

While Gigablast lacks some common features as mentioned above, it does have many features of its own.

Gigabits is a Gigablast feature where the search engine guesses related keywords from a search query and puts them at the top of the results page^[6]. This is often useful for getting quick answers to certain questions. For example, a search for "Who is the president of Cuba?"^[7] shows Gigabits mentioning Fidel Castro Ruz. However, the results are, at times, misleading or inconclusive. For example, the query "Who is President of the United States?"^[8] doesn't yield "George W. Bush" among the keywords, thus making this feature useless here.

Other features of Gigablast are the ability to view cached versions of a page, the ability to view old versions of a web page, a search within the Open Directory Project, and the ability to transfer a search to other popular search engines, namely Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask.com.

Similar to Google's larger feature to search among different types of materials (such as books, videos, and blogs), Gigablast is able to search among blogs, government pages, and travel sites.

Gigablast also offers the Gigablast Toolbar, currently in beta, for Internet Explorer^[9]. The toolbar is able to search within a web page, search within a web site, search sites linked to from the web page, and search within bookmarked sites.

References

1. ^ [1]
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5. ^ Example search with the Hebrew word Shalom.
6. ^ [5]
7. ^ Search for "Who is the president of Cuba?"
8. ^ Search for "Who is the President of the United States?"
9. ^ [6]

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