Search Engine Gigablast Enters Beta

Search engine Gigablast ( http://www.gigablast.com ) blasted into beta last weekend. And while they have a comparatively small index (73M pages), there are some good ideas here.

Do a simple search on the front page or use the advanced search to set up a query. You'll notice that the advanced search lets you both sort by date and restrict your summary to a certain number of lines.

Search results (which as far as I can tell only provide 10 results no matter how many you specify in the advanced search) are cool. You get, in addition to the title, URL, and size, the last-spidered date, the last-modified date if available (the spider pulls it out of the header) and a link to a cache. The cache also has a spider date.

Gigablast also indexes URLs immediately, it looks like. Use the Add URL link and then refresh the front page a couple times. You'll see the number change. I added a page that I know Gigablast didn't have, then queried Gigablast a few minutes later for a phrase that didn't exist in its index but was on that page. Boom, it was there. When Gigablast says it indexes pages instantly it ain't kidding. One to watch.

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