Monday, October 13, 2008

Gigablast: Search with Attitude

Gigablast (www.gigablast.com) is a ten-billion-page search engine that accommodates a huge quantity of users, workloads, and transactions. Customize Gigablast to retrieve web pages, images, video, or directory queries based on freshness by clicking last day, last month, last week, last year, custom, or off links. For more information, click Fresh Results link.
Try a simple search on Gigablast’s front page template (who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg) or click Advanced Search to set up a query. Other links include Help, Eco-Friendly, and Privacy Enhanced. Gigablast retrievals show key themes and related topics in GigaBits displays.
Most Gigablast search results include the following information at the end of retrieval abstracts:
  • Archived Copy: a direct link to Gigablast’s cached copy of the web page.
  • Stripped: an image-free copy of the page.
  • Older Copies: a hard-coded link to The WayBack Machine’s copy of that site’s information.
  • Indexed Date: when Gigablast’s spiders last crawled the page.
Gigablast is listed in the law library's Web Research Links under Non-Legal > Search Engines > Search Engines > Gigablast.