Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Gigablast Search Engine

"The search engine Gigablast (http://www.gigablast.com) has been around since 2000, and generally doesn't get a lot of attention. It's a search engine for search-logic geeks -- you can do some very subtle searches that aren't supported in most other search engines.

Let's start at Gigablast's main page, which features a goofy-looking rocket ship. Click the Advanced Search button to take advantage of the usual search engine features -- the ability to combine AND, OR and NOT (you must put the Boolean operators in ALL CAPs); phrase searches, site search ("restrict to this URL"), and link search ("pages that link to this URL"). You can also specify for each search how many results you want per search-results page (10, 20, 30, 40, 50 or 100.
(You can also use a pull-down menu on the search results page to change the number of results per page -- a nice
touch.)"
Source: Mary Ellen Bates Tips

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