Gigablast Launches Lovely Lovely Topic Search Tool

Oh small search engines, I heart you. The other major searches engines seems to do things in big clumps, all launching the same types of features and software at the same time (not that it's not good stuff, just a bit overwhelming) -- then a little search engine pottering away at its own thing comes along and says, "yoooooo hoooo! I have a wonderfully groovy search tool for youuuuuuuuuu!"

Thus we have a new offering from Gigablast's Matt Wells, the Custom Topic Search. It's available at http://www.gigablast.com/cts.html . It requires a little nerdness to get it going, but not much.

The site provides you with two chunks of information. The first chunk is an HTML snippet that puts a search form on your page. You'll have to edit the HTML a bit to customize it for your site, thus the need for a little nerdness. The customization includes a logo and a list of domains you want to include in your search. You can include up to 200 domains, but it looks like it's domains only, not folders within domains.

At the bottom of the page is the second information chunk, a form you can use to search all the sites within a particular DMOZ directory. Results look like regular Gigablast results; a list of domains searched is not available in the search results (pity) but you can see them in the giant URL result.

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