By: Channa Boucher. What is ? Gigablast is a search engine that was created in 2000 that retrieves information from partner sites. It was created to index.

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By: Channa Boucher

What is ? Gigablast is a search engine that was created in 2000 that retrieves information from partner sites. It was created to index up to 200 billion pages with the least amount of hardware possible. Is the leading clean-energy search engine using 90% of its power from wind energy.

Some of Its Features Directory Advance Search Super Recall – start to return results that contain most of your query terms Gigabot – Also known as “spider”-indexing agent Boolean Queries Answers Questions

Products and Services Software License XML Search Feed Custom Topic Search Web Search Hosted Search Site Search Gigaboost Data Extraction

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Using Advance Search

Using the Directory

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