Gigablast! The Secret Wepon?

Am I the only one using?

[bsand715]

In my day job I use the SE's a LOT (too darn much) researching different subjects for an Uncle of ours.

I want fast and revelent results.

I have found that the quickest and best way to find what I am looking for is simply to go to gigablast and if not shown on their serps to click on the SE links on the bottom.

At this point in time AltaVista is leading with spot on returns the most. Not enough to justify AV use only.

The halls of google and yahoo are very busy and noisy with webmasters wanting to place high on the page,but when it comes to finding what I want Gigablast is where I go.

I don,t remember the persons name who started Gigablast. He posted on WebmasterWorld at one time. But My Hat is off to him for making our job eaiser.

Ben

[pageoneresults]

Out of all the contenders out there that are considered 2nd tier search engines, I'd put Gigablast in the top three of the list.

Matt Wells is the creator of Gigablast. I think if he had a little more financial and PR backing, he could make a serious go at it.

[bsand715]

Pageone.. IMHO coming from you with your background that is a hugh compliment. It appears one man (Matt)to make a splash among the Giant SE,s shows what the power of one and the internet can accomplish.

PS. What would happen If only the members of WebmasterWorld would promote it more

[Brad]

I use Gigablast in exactly the same way as you describe. I hope Matt can continue to increase the db size and refresh rate, Gigablast is shaping up to be a real good search engine.

[takagi]

As Matt already wrote on January 31 [gigablast.com]:

Now I'm planning on turning Gigablast into a default AND engine.

Well, he did. Gigablast recently started showing the text:

'No more results found. Show relevant partial matches for your query [gigablast.com]'

at the end of the SERPs where there used to be a blue bar saying "The results below may not have all your query terms". This bar was separating the results containing all the keywords, from the results missing one or more keywords. Adding '&rat=0' (without the quotes) to the URL, will give you the old SERP with the blue bar. Starting from January 8 you could already get these new results by adding '&rat=1' to the URL. So what basically changed is that the 'rat'-parameter is now default on.

On February 16 [gigablast.com] he explained why:

Default AND searches now require about a quarter of the CPU time default OR searches do. But, currently, when you search on Gigablast.com it is still default OR, so you will not see this speed up. Right now it is mainly for my search feed clients. There are still a great deal many resource-saving tweaks that will be done to improve the default AND search time.

In the last few weeks the number of indexed pages decreased by 10M. That means that that in that period at least some 10M old pages have been removed. Most likely even more, because new pages were also added to the database in that same period. Still it is possible to see pages in the SERPs that were last indexed up to 22 month [gigablast.com] ago. But to be fair to Matt, last indexed doesn't necessarily mean last spidered as he explained here [webmasterworld.com]. And also, if the page doesn't exist anymore, you can still see the cache. So it is still possible to see the result even after the real page is gone.

[takagi]

Maybe Gigablast should handle the really old pages in the index like Google does with the Supplemental Results. Added at the end of the SERPs for searches with a low number of results and ignored for searches with losts of results.

[xbase234]

I just got back from SES, and one thing I took away was the fact that Gigablast's star is going to rise.

There is a void in the market now, and Gigablast has the potential to fill it.