Gigablast plugged into ODP?

just done a search

[jpalmer]

Greetings and gidday from downunder folks,

Just did a couple of standard "tests" for my industry at gigablast, and the results look suspiciously like ODP for my cats.

If so ... pity ... the new kid on the block was looking promising.

Care to comment matt?

Cheers and Hooroo
JP

[TallTroll]

AFAIK, Matt Wells has publicly stated that he uses Y! as a seed site, but no comment on ODP. Wouldn't surprise me if he was using it though, good source of seed URLs

[lazerzubb]

It doesn't look as ODP data to me.

[Brett_Tabke]

All the new search engines I've seen in the last two years have used the ODP to seed their indexes. It's one of the most powerful reasons for getting into the ODP.

[Grumpus]

I just popped in there today and was going to submit my site and it's shut down (submissions, that is). So, I ran a quick search for fun and realized that my site had about 40-50 pages indexed on it. Therefore, I can say for sure that he didn't get my site from Yahoo! nor ODP as I ain't in either of 'em. Not that he didn't seed with one of those, but he surely didn't find my site that way.

G.

[brotherhood of LAN]

I think there are still issues in gblast with clustering (?). I done a search and got 5 of my pages in the top 10. Im not complaining but im sure the other 5 sites would :)

[Grumpus]

Yeah boL, it definitely doesn't rank or cluster very well, the question was where he got his seed for spidering, though. ;)

Doing common searches that people hit my site with from other engines, nothing ever showed up on the first several pages, so it's pretty much a mess. It'll get there though. Looks like it has a lot of promise.

G.