Intro

• It was started and run for some time by one person (Matt Wells)
• Very few people use it compared to the other major search engines, but it is rapidly improving in size and sophistication.
• Size: GigaBlast now has over 2.5 billion records.
• http://www.gigablast.com

Search functionality

• The one-line Basic Search supports full Boolean searching (including nesting) plus field-searching capabilities. See the GigaBlast Help page (at http://www.gigablast.com/help.html) to see the full range of capabilities.
• The Advanced Search (http://www.gigablast.com/adv.html) has a simple but effective search interface supporting Boolean capabilities through use of entry fields.
• One cool aspect of GigaBlast's search functionality is its display of records. Not only can you choose how many segments containing your search terms to display, the resulting record also includes (most of the time) the following:
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GigaBlast Advanced Search Interface

• http://www.gigablast.com/adv.html