Gigablast Sporting a Web Directory?

Did I miss something? It looks like Gigablast is now offering a Web directory (based off DMOZ?) To see it go to Gigablast ( http://www.gigablast.com ) and choose the directory link at the top of the page. But at first glance all I can say is "this is weird."

The infrastructure looks like DMOZ, but the numbers don't match. Comparing the arts category with the DMOZ arts category shows that the numbers don't match. For antiques DMOZ lists 990, like Gigablast lists 997. Google Directory shows still different numbers and listings -- I'm confused. I'd get it if DMOZ had the highest number and the Google and Gigablast directory numbers were lower -- I'd figure that DMOZ had updated and Google and Gigablast hadn't caught up yet -- but in some cases the DMOZ number is lowest!

...brain... melting..

All right, let's concentrate on Gigablast. The listings look DMOZish except for changes to listings and a very nice change to the directory search. Each site on the listings contains standard Gigablast features, including a cached copy of the page, a stripped copy of the cache (no images, etc.), and a link to older versions of the page via archive.org. Site listings also note when the pages were last updated and indexed (I don't believe these numbers 100%, but it's a good place as any to start.)

The directory search allows you to search the entire directory, the entire category, the pages in the base category, or the SITES in the base category -- nice that there's this option.

I don't know where this information is coming from -- if it's coming from DMOZ I wonder why it's not got the cute little DMOZ footer at the bottom, if it's coming from Google Directory I just wonder why period -- but I like the better search feature and the cache options and indexing information for each listing.

BTW did you know Gigablast's Web search is up to 1.5 billion pages?

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