I've probably put this in the wrong forum, so feel free to move it, but the major search engine forums are currently making a big fuss over this new search engine : www.gigablast.com .

It reminds me of a cross between the old Infoseek and Google and offers real time spidering and pretty much instant inclusion. Check it out, see what you think and then tell everyone to use the damn thing. Bout time we had some competition for Google.

1,299,456 full pages indexed

Doesn't look like much competition to google. It reminds me of when people talk about all the 'hits' thier site gets instead of unique visitors.

Whats all the fuss about? I feel like I've written about that many pages... in the past year. (probably a little less :) )

Originally posted by driverdave
Whats all the fuss about? I feel like I've written about that many pages... in the past year. (probably a little less :) ) It's brand new. That index has been being built since Sunday evening, the 17th.

The site's still in pre-beta, so it shouldn't yet be compared to Google or to any other search engine.

By the way, I started a thread on gigablast in the Lounge yesterday: http://webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=40551

And DriverDave, there were only about 100,000 pages indexed when I looked this morning, so I reckon that is a pretty good rate of increase.

I wasn't saying it was competition for Google yet, just that some competition is needed and this has potential. Christ, some people are so negative.

Yep, pretty sweeeeeeeeet. Tried it out two days ago and was quite pleased with the results.

Originally posted by queensoul
Yep, pretty sweeeeeeeeet. Tried it out two days ago and was quite pleased with the results. If you submitted your site two days ago, though, you might want to resubmit. As I mentioned in the other thread, the index was lost yesterday and spidering was restarted again from scratch. Last I saw before that happened it was approaching 3 million pages.

Well Gigabot/1.0 is certainly on the ball....

wonder how many half pages they have indexed? :D

I've just noted that there is a duplicate thread posted by JayC in the Lounge. Directing all traffic to that thread instead - http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=40551

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