Gigablast Review March 5, 2008.
by Daniel H.



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I would recommend this site for user-friendly search results as well as up to date information that is documented. Search results came back in a list form that was easy to read and make selections on a given result.
Strengths:
The strength of the site as listed below offer a variety of supports to the user. The site is very user friendly and easy to navigate. It is not cluttered, the search results are well organized, and dates are referenced under each.

Hyper Scalable	Scales to 200 billion full pages and 100,000 servers.
Efficient	Uses very few computers to support a huge index and a large number of queries per second.
Simple Interface	Get the search results via an XML feed
Web Directory	Allows searching of all the sites in a particular topic, not just the pages. All directory pages can be returned through the XML feed, too.
Gigabot	Gigablast's fast and feature-rich spider is highly configurable.
Document Injection	Bypass the spider and inject your document directly into Gigablast using simple HTTP POSTs or GETs
Real-Time	URLs are indexed in real-time. Link analysis is done on the fly.
Intelligent Update	Determines the update cycle of each document and tries to spider it at that frequency.
Duplicate Detection	Spider can detect and discard duplicate web pages.
Dual Mode	Uses idle cycles to spider and index documents, but will quickly yield resources to handle incoming queries.
Maintainable	Comprehensive web-based GUI controls make it easy to administer.
Spam Protection	Features a large array of anti-spam tools and algorithms used to keep spam out of the index.
Document Cache	Has a cache to hold user-viewable copies of the pages it spiders and indexes. Obeys nocache meta tags as specified.
Historic Cache	Spider can hold documents in the index long after they are 404.
HTTPS support	Can spider and serve HTTPS pages.
robots.txt	The Gigablast spiders support the robots.txt standard as well as certain related meta tags.
Multiple Formats	Indexes PDF, Microsoft Word, Power Point, Excel, and Postscript documents. Supports user-definable filters.
Dynamic Summaries	Search result summaries are generated so that they contain the query terms.
Term Highlighting	Performs query term highlighting on the view of cached pages and on the dynamic summaries.
Robust Query Syntax	Features many different field searches, + and - operators.
Family Filter	Removes pages with undesirable content from the search results.
Sort by date	Sorts search results by date, very fast and with high accuracy.
Query Refinement	Search within a set of search results.
Advanced Search	Allows users to perform power searches quickly and easily.
Site Clustering	Can optionally cluster away results from the same web site, so the list of search results is not dominated by any one site.
Fuzzy Deduping	Automatically removes search results that are X% similar to an above result, where X is adjustable.
Query Weighting	Custom weight the query terms exactly how you want.
Super Recall	Returns extra results which only have some of the query terms.
Spell Checking	Performs spell checking based on a dictionary that is constructed from the index. Add your own words and phrases, too.
Huge Document Support	Index documents that are hundreds of Megabytes in size.
Huge Result Sets	Receive hundreds of thousands of results per page.
Related Topics	Dynamically generated on a per query basis. (aka GigaBits)
Reference Pages Narrows your subject	Generates sets of expert web sites which contain lists of links relevant to the query.
Custom Topic Search	Constrain searches to a list of up to 500 sites.
Default AND Capable	Can easily limit search results to only pages that have all the query terms.
Advanced functions Boolean Queries	Supports complex nested boolean queries using AND, OR and NOT operators.
Turing Test	Uses simple Turing test to prevent real-time addurl abuse.
Redundancy	If one server goes down then its twins take over for it.
Error Correction	Corrupted data is automatically detected and patched from a mirror host.
Load Balancing	Gigablast intelligently distributes load evenly among all hosts in the network.
Collections	Allows the administrator to partition the index into many sub indexes.

Weaknesses: The data base is still a little limited and the search results reflect a less than accurate list of available information.

The Following information is provided by Gigablast.com.

© 2008 Gigablast
Gigablast Overview Gigablast is one of the last, pure, Internet search engines. Our #1 goal is to provide our users with high-quality, relevant search results. Period.
We've been around since 2000, and we launched the first version of our search in 2002. We quickly became known as a highly-efficient search engine with both broad and deep coverage of the growing Internet. We received much attention from 2002 through 2005, and our traffic grew considerably during that period. In 2006 Gigablast began to focus on providing search services to businesses, and our Business Services have fueled our growth ever since.
During the past two years, Gigablast has been revamping, redesigning, and re-architecting its search functionality from the ground up, and our "re-launch" in 2008 aims to bring our high-quality, highly-relevant search engine functionality to the individual search user
Gigablast Team Gigablast takes pride in hiring the top engineers, scientists, and programmers to research, design, develop, and innovate one of the top search engines in the world. If you are interested in joining the Gigablast team, please review the opportunities on the Gigablast Careers page.

Management

Matt Wells
Founder and CEO Matt founded Gigablast in 2000. As CEO of the company, Matt directs Gigablast's overall vision, strategy, and technology innovation. Prior to founded Gigablast, Matt was a member of Infoseek's industry-leading search team in Sunnyvale, California. Prior to joining Infoseek, Matt was actively involved in the early Internet development, including founding a site called The Artists' Den in 1996. The site was on Yahoo's What's Cool twice, on Netscape's What's New once, and a semi-permanent feature on Infoseek's Reference Page. Matt received his BS in Computer Science and his MS in Mathematics, both from New Mexico Tech.

Marcus Ruark
Vice President, Sales and Marketing As Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Marcus leads Gigablast's sales and business development efforts, including partner relationships, customer acquisition, account management, and business strategy. In addition, Marcus also leads Gigablast's product strategy and marketing efforts. Prior to joining Gigablast, Marcus was CEO and co-founder for Optiant, Inc., a venture-backed supply chain optimization company in Boston, MA. Before founding Optiant, he was co-founder and VP of Marketing for Commotion Technology, Inc. (acquired by Brooks Automation, NASDAQ: BRKS). Marcus has also held executive positions in marketing at River Logic, Inc., sales at PanGo, Inc., and program management for the US Air Force and the National Security Agency. Currently, Marcus also serves as an advisor to a number of startups throughout the United States and volunteers as a judge for MIT's prestigious $100K Entrepreneurship Challenge. He graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Engineering Management, both from Stanford University

Gigablast Stacks Up Against Current Leaders in Search

55% of study participants find Gigablast ‘as good as or better than Google’

Santa Clara, CA – SMX West – February 27, 2008 (PR NEWSWIRE) – Gigablast, Inc., (www.gigablast.com), a pioneer in Internet search, today announced the results of a recent search engine comparison study. A majority of study participants, over 55%, found the Gigablast search results to be as good as, or better than, search results from Google, Inc.
The study, which compared Gigablast’s and Google’s search results side-by-side, without brand names or logos, included over 220 participants. Forty-eight sample search queries were used, with the queries comprising an unbiased selection of the top queries of 2007, as reported by Google’s own Google Zeitgeist service. The majority of study participants were from North America (approximately 73% of participants). The study was conducted between February 15th and 18th, 2008.
Compared with Ask.com’s search results in a separate study, Gigablast performed even better. In that study (using the same sample search queries from Google’s Google Zeitgeist service), 44% of users preferred Gigablast to Ask.com (versus only 34% of users who preferred Ask to Gigablast). Including tie votes, 66% of users voted Gigablast better than, or as good as, Ask.com.
Comparison studies with Microsoft Live Search and Yahoo are now in progress. "Our users have always been passionate about Gigablast search, but the outcome of these studies represents great validation of the quality, relevance, and freshness of the Gigablast search results," said Matt Wells, CEO and Founder of Gigablast. "When combined with our intuitive user interface, our industry-leading privacy policy, and our flexible business services, the results of these studies demonstrate that Gigablast is an exceptional search alternative."
The studies were conducted using Gigablast’s new Search Engine Analysis service. This service, which is available from Gigablast beginning in March, can provide insightful, customized, search engine analytics to advertisers, marketers, and corporate search engine customers. Fees for the Gigablast Search Engine Analysis service start at $1800 and vary by study size.

About Gigablast

Gigablast’s advanced search technologies provide consumers and businesses with powerful, relevant, Internet-wide search results and flexible search services. Founded in 2000, Gigablast today is a leading provider of natural, algorithmic search services, including consumer web search, XML web search feeds, hosted search, and customized search software. Gigablast’s innovative, industry-leading algorithms enable massive-scale spidering, query-processing, and spam reduction with minimal hardware and expense. Gigablast is a privately held company headquartered in Albuquerque, NM, with offices throughout the US. For more information, please visit
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