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so i wonder what the exact role of each of the three is?
Thanks for posting the link - this does get interesting.
#1 <keyword> website
#2 <off topic keyword>
etc
Soon as I see that I know I will not be using it. A waste of my time.
[edited by: jeremy_goodrich at 6:22 pm (utc) on May 22, 2003]
[edit reason] deleted specifics - let's keep it generic, thanks! [/edit]
Soon as I see that I know I will not be using it. A waste of my time.
Yes but this is one guy doing it all. Google has like a hundred engineers. I appreciate gigablast for the effort he puts into this, and if he (or from now on: they) sort out the financing on time, Google may join Altavista in web history as far as I see it. Not that I'm an advocate or anything.
Reality..My main site shows a cached version from May, 2002! Not good.
Added:
Now I see pages cached from Feb 2003. That's not so bad.
[edited by: Birdman at 6:40 pm (utc) on May 22, 2003]
The third guy looks like the mad scientist :)
Yeah :))) They are not very strong on the PR front...
But if you resubmit you will get refreshed in a sec and that is quite an advantage.
The "About" page doesn't give anything away...?
Yes, I submitted a site that was not indexed and just saw the bot in my logs. Lo and behold, it's indexed now. Pretty cool.
More especially if your are "unhappy" with the curent state-of-affairs ;)
From Matt's Bio
One of its major features is its cost. He built it from day one to be the cheapest most scalable search engine on the market. It can index BILLIONS of web pages and serve thousands of queries per second at an unbelievably-LOW cost.
Rich
LOL
Have just seen the image on Jean-Louis Lassez biog
http*//www.gigablast.com/jl.html - definately a character :)
We are trying to gather some funding by the end of this year. We have an enormous amount of faith in Gigablast and the Information Technology field and we are vigorously pursuing our goals.
I am curious to know the particular phrase search that is providing substandard results. Could you please stickymail it to me? It is most likely due to some spam pages that were indexed before Gigablast's spam detection system was 100% in place. If the bad pages were indexed before October or November of last year this is probably why.
With only about 1.5Mbps of bandwidth, $8k of hardware and while serving 500,000 queries per day it is challenging to keep a two hundred million page index fresh, but, despite this situation, I think we've been doing a good job.
You may notice pages that have index dates from a long time ago, but that may mean that the spider visited them recently and found them unchanged so it did not reindex them. To make things less confusing, I may soon change the index date to a last visited date, but right now I have my hands full debugging Gigablast 2.0.
We are just doing an effective searching FAQ, if there's anything that you wish to include re GB please post and we'll include.
Someday I'd like to see companies like Gigablast and SearchHippo competing for the lion's share of the searches.
why aren't you at the discotech?
I'm in China.
I haven't seen it up and running for at least 5 months!
Dave
It has been up and running continuously almost all year. (where have you been?) It's just off now because I'm doing some upgrades. What do you think of my new search results?
Matt Wells
Why not consider how you can penetrate the market past google, instead of going head to head with the. For example consider doing a site search option with more configuration so folks can use gigablast as a site search. Branding and promotion, and for those people it'd be a boon if they can get their own site refreshed quickly. And they don't care if any other pages are up to date.
You could get your branding out there. The google customized site search is cute, but lacks in finesse. That is definitly one application were you could easily out-muscle google.
Google needs some healthy competition. If you look at certain features which have never been finished or polished because they didn'T need to, you realise how much better Google could be if they had to try harder.
Good Luck, GigaBlast!
SN
Matt,
This is an excellent index. The best so far.
What do you think of my new search results?
I did some queries on topics I really know very good and have to say, that your new results are great. Keep on, you're on the right track.
That cannot be true! I have been there many times over the last 5 months and it always read "Sorry, this feature is temporarily disabled. Please try again later." It's reads the same now. Other than today and yesterday, the last times was about 6 weeks ago and many times before that.
I tried a search on some phrases that I get good listings for in Google and Gigablast was quite similar. So, I would have to say the search results for me were good.
Dave
