Watch Out Google, Here Comes Gigablast!

Watch Out Google, Here Comes Gigablast!


Gigablast has recently joined the elite ranks of major search engine companies. The Albuquerque, NM-based company is making a name for itself by offering a variety of search features that are highly customizable, including topic generation and the ability to index multiple document formats.


Gigablast, which is 100% self-financed, has a database of over 1 billion Web pages, that can be publicly accessed from the company's homepage, http://www.gigablast.com/. Gigablast's old database contained half the amount of Web pages it now includes.

The increased database caused a variety of new search solutions to be introduced, so the increased index size could be fully utilized. Among these are Dedicated Site Search (DSS) and Custom Topic Search (CTS). With DSS, Web developers can give Web site visitors search capability for the specific Web site being viewed. Additionally, Web developers can provide root URLs to seed the spidering process of their Web sites. Gigablast intends to spider their site in real-time at the rate of one page every five seconds.


Story Here (http://sys-con.com/story/?storyid=47734&de=1)

They have been very active on both my forums.

I see Gigablast popping in with some frequency too, thought not like Googlebot, Slurp, or MSNbot.

Just checking my main site there now though I see this:

www.psychlinks.ca - 11.9k - [archived copy] - [stripped] - [older copies] - indexed: Dec 14 2004 - modified: Dec 14 2004
Since the page has been updated several times sine then and since Gigabot has visited the site since then more than once, I have to wonder about how often they are updating the database.

Additionally, Web developers can provide root URLs to seed the spidering process of their Web sites.
Story Here (http://sys-con.com/story/?storyid=47734&de=1)

What the url for this, I have been unable to find it.

Click on "Story Here" in Joey's post above: http://sys-con.com/story/?storyid=47734&de=1

Click on "Story Here" in Joey's post above: http://sys-con.com/story/?storyid=47734&de=1

Sorry I should of been more precise, I mean the URL for submitting "my root URLs" to Gigablast. :)

Regards,
Zoo

Edit: For what good it did me I found it. http://www.gigablast.com/addurl

More data here about Gigablast and it's founder!

http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=135

I linked to this article a long time ago on one of my pages!

Pointless building a big search engine if nobody is going to use it

And if I can't add my URL :( "Sorry, this feature is temporarily disabled. Please try again later."

Pointless building a big search engine if nobody is going to use it

It can only get big if people use it!

So someone must be using it!:D

Its just a big bandwith swallowing machine :D

They are going after different markets than Google, they are going after custom corporate searches sort of like IBM does with their WebFountain project!

http://www.searchwars.squarespace.com/ibm-the-search-monster/

Enterprise search is a big business where corporations take their own existing data and index it so they can search their own private information in addition to public and private databases!

There is a large market for this sort of custom search process that these engines offer!

Cool. Looks like a interesting search engine. I think though the search engine world it getting overcrowded.