Gigablast

70 million pages and going beta

[MarkHutch]

I just noticed that Gigablast has moved up to beta from pre-beta. Several months ago there were messages about this new SE, but at the time the data base kept crashing, so most of us gave up on the thing. However, I noticed tonight that their database is closing in on 100 million pages, so maybe this new SE might have legs. I noticed the webmaster has a link now from the index page which explains what his intentions are with gigablast.com.

[chris_f]

I'm having fun on GigaBlast. Go to the index page and keep refreshing.

Watch that page count fly. WOW.

Chris

[Weblamer]

Hmm, i checked my rankings in gigablast. It hit my main page on july 16th, however it did not crawl my entire site. :(

[dcheney]

I've noticed the same general pattern - it checks the submitted page(s) and then gets a few linked off of it but no deeper.

[Jill]

Is Gigablast still spidering sites really fast? What is there ip?

[idiotgirl]

It added the page almost immediately, but only the domain I added and didn't crawl any more even though my robots tag was index and follow. I bet it only took a couple minute or so to show up on Gigablast after submittal. I can see "noarchive" and no cache being an issue - so that's something to watch for.

[arefsum]

It also verifies your html I think. Immediately after it has grabbed a page there is a visit from Jigsaw/2.2.0 W3C_CSS_Validator_JFouffa/2.0

Alf

[MarkHutch]

I submitted our website to their index about three months ago and I think it's spidered most of the pages on all of our sites. When I first submitted I noticed it got about a dozen pages right away, but then nothing for a few weeks. Then all of a sudden it started spidering everything very fast. I don't know if this is the norm, but what happen to us.

[chiyo]

I've always been surpised with the interest in this engine from here. No disrepect to the developer, but this SE is almost unknown, has no hint of any partnerships, and delivers no hits, to me at least.

I guess it has something to do with the infoseek effect. The satiscation in seeing your results in their instantly. However unlike infoseek, the main users are webmasters themselves..

I know you have to start somewhere, but new search engines have to offer something unique, not just something that attracts webmasters, to succeed. Gigablast deserves interest for sure, but OpenSeek, for example, looks even more advanced, but dosent get nearly the same interest.

The key is getting listings for sure, but it has to be in places that people use to search.

[Birdman]

I've never even visited them until I read this thread. It looks like it gives decent results and I have a site in there(cool). Haven't had a hit yet, that I know of.

Go Gigablast

[JayC]

I've always been surpised with the interest in this engine from here.
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I guess it has something to do with the infoseek effect.

Speaking for myself, I'd say it may be some of that, but also that it's simply interesting to watch the development from the beginning. Certainly I don't consider it to be an "important" search engine, and don't know whether it ever will be. The odds are against it.

But for anyone who spends a lot of time thinking about search engines, the ongoing development of a new one has to be somewhat interesting.

I'm having fun on GigaBlast. Go to the index page and keep refreshing.

Well it's not as much fun as it used to be when the last few search terms used were displayed on the index page... and so people quickly realized that it was a kewl chat room.

[angiolo]

I do not receive traffic from Gigablast but it is a good tool.

You can test your new sites; you can see how your pages are optimizided compared to competitors.

[Beachboy]

It takes time to get known. Let's see how it plays out.

[Weblamer]

Just somethign I noticed about gigablast:

I had an old domain that I did not used much. For the index page I simply had one of those 'this page has moved' and a forwarding metarefresh.

However, on gigablast when I looked at the cache for this old domain, it showed not the 'this page has moved' page, but the page it redirects you to.

interesting.

Also, it does not seem to crawl ASP pages.

[rcjordan]

I wrote a little submit macro this morning, you guys can have GB back now ...I'm through.

>surprised at the interest

Yes, chiyo, so am I. I think its a combination of the infoseek effect and free. Personally, I collect enough traffic off the small engines and directories to make them worthwhile *IF* I don't have to spend a day filling in the submit form.