Gigablast

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Gigablast
Home page as of January 2019
Type of site
Search engine
Available inEnglish
Founded2000; 24 years ago (2000)
DissolvedApril 2023; 17 months ago (April 2023)
HeadquartersAlbuquerque, New Mexico, United States[1]
OwnerGigablast, Inc.
Created byMatt Wells
RegistrationOptional
Launched2002; 22 years ago (2002)[2][3]
Current statusOffline
Written inC/C++
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Developer(s)Matt Wells
Final release
1.20-1 (x64,[4] i386[5])
Repositoryhttps://github.com/gigablast/open-source-search-engine
Written inC/C++
Operating systemLinux
Typesearch engine
LicenseApache License 2.0
Websitewww.gigablast.com

Gigablast was an American free and open-source web search engine and directory. Founded in 2000, it was an independent engine and web crawler,[6] developed and maintained by Matt Wells, a former Infoseek employee and New Mexico Tech graduate.[7] During early April 2023, the website went offline without warning and without any official statement.

The open-source search engine source code is written in the programming languages C and C++. It was released as open-source software under the Apache License version 2, in July 2013.[8] In 2015, Gigablast claimed to have indexed over 12 billion web pages.[9]

The Gigablast engine provided search results to other companies at various times, including Ixquick,[10] Clusty,[11] Zuula, Snap,[12] Blingo, and Internet Archive.[13]

  1. ^ "Gigablast Inc". Yellowpages.
  2. ^ Notess, Greg R. (31 March 2008). "Review of Gigablast". Search Engine Showdown. Archived from the original on 14 July 2023. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
  3. ^ Chamberlain, Ellen (2000). "Bare Bones lesson 14: GIGABLAST". Bare Bones 101: A basic tutorial on searching the web. The University of South Carolina Beaufort.
  4. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2023-03-01. Retrieved 2018-01-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-03-18. Retrieved 2018-01-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ Burge, Randy (11 June 2007). "New Mexico's soil fertile for brainchilds". Albuquerque Tribune. Archived from the original on 13 December 2013. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
  7. ^ Wells, Matt. "Matt Wells' Career Highlights". Gigablast. Archived from the original on 23 January 2020. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
  8. ^ "Gigablast Now an Open Source Search Engine". PR Newswire. 30 July 2013. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
  9. ^ Wells, Matt. "FAQ". Gigablast. Archived from the original on 20 February 2016.
  10. ^ "Ixquick Q&A" (PDF). Ixquick. January 2009. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
  11. ^ "Do Alternative Search Engines Measure Up?". PC World. 23 October 2007. Archived from the original on 23 January 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
  12. ^ Delaney, Kevin J. (6 October 2004). "Snap Enters Field Of Search Engines With Some Twists". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
  13. ^ Gigablast (1 July 2015). "Gigablast to Build the Biggest Search Engine". PR Newswire.