Gigablast Launches Site Search for Websites
Here at the Search Engine Strategies conference in New York City (Search Engine Strategies New York 2008), Gigablast has officially launched their fresh and comprehensive site search for websites. If you have a website you can now provide a free site search as well as web search for your site’s visitors.
To add this site search feature to your site, you will need to first go here to the Gigablast Help area. You will need to add a form to your site (Gigablast provides the code pictured below):
You will actually need to modify the code to include your domain name as well as your site’s logo in 200×50 size. To be honest with you, as a webmaster and site owner, I’m not sure if I have a 200×50 size logo to add and it will take extra time to have one made or to make one. so, I’m kind of confused as to why Gigablast would require this. But, in any case, I’ve added the code (minus the site logo) below so you can see how the site search service works to search my site:
What’s interesting is that you could actually use this site search to build your own mini-search engine. For example, if you have a network of blog sites you could add all the sites to this site search code and allow visitors to search your network of sites.
Here is a sample screen shot of the Gigablast search results:
What’s cool about this new service is from Gigablast is that if you add site search to your site the site will receive Gigablast’s Gigaboost system, which means that your site will receive priority during the Gigablast indexing process. This Gigablast priority allows you to offer fresh site search results that are frequently updated. This is especially important for sites that update their content frequently, such as news sites, blogs, and other information-packed sites.
“The most frequent complaint regarding alternative site search services is the freshness of the site search results,” said Marcus Ruark, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Gigablast. “Gigablast Site Search with Gigaboost provides a tremendous search advantage to websites with dynamic, usergenerated content, frequent page updates, or regular sales promotions.”
Since web pages with Gigablast Site Search receive priority in the Gigablast indexing process, all web searches on www.gigablast.com, or on any of Gigablast’s affiliate or partner websites will have fresh access to those Gigablast Site Search web pages.
Gigablast Site Search with Gigaboost is free and available right now at www.Gigablast.com.
Founded in 2000, Gigablast is a leading provider of natural, algorithmic search services, including consumer web search, XML web search feeds, hosted search, and customized search software. Gigablast’s innovative, industry-leading algorithms enable massive-scale spidering, query-processing, and spam reduction with minimal hardware and expense.
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Mar 19th 2008
Great. Just what I need. Another search engine. haha. Is that engine powered by Gigalblast or some parent company? In terms of the results that is. I do think that is pretty cool to get speedy indexing for participating though. Interesting.
Mar 19th 2008
Thanks for posting. I found the information and details you gave on Gigablast to be very informational and interesting. I can definitely say I learned something new today!
Mar 19th 2008
Gigablast launching a new site search for web sites is good. I thunk there are many other who have launched. I dont know how much successfull it will be.
Mar 20th 2008
Interesting.
New search engine.I don’t know this is going to be success or not but almost all the people are using Google for the search engine
Mar 20th 2008
Hi Bill,
I’m thrilled that you like what you see with our improved Gigablast Site Search feature. Yes, there are other site search options out there (we have, in fact, heard of Google!), but it’s our goal to give website operators–and their visitors–a far more “fresh” and more comprehensive site search experience.
Regarding your comment about logo image size. We are trying to offer something quite flexible here, but it appears our instructions were lacking in some of the details. We’ve corrected that, I think, but in the meantime, here’s a quick comment from one of our engineers:
“We handle other image sizes–in fact, we also handle no image sizes. ih is the image height and iw is the image width, and you can change those values to whatever the image is. Also (even easier), you can remove those lines entirely and let the image size itself naturally.”
I hope that helps!
Sincerely,
Marcus Ruark
http://www.gigablast.com
Mar 20th 2008
I’ve added this search button to my site to try out. I’m confused to as to why they have the logo requirement.
Mar 25th 2008
This looks interesting. I came across this tool some time back and it looked like, at that time, it was mothballed.
Any thoughts out there as to how this tool compares with Google’s custom search in terms of indexing the pages on ‘my’ site for my visitors to search on?
Any sites out there that would be a good reference for Gigablast that I can check out?
Thanks!
Mar 27th 2008
How can Gigablast gain profits by offering its free services?
Sep 9th 2008
but i highly prefer Google Custom Search over it i myself am using Google CSE (custom search engine) you can have it like result on another page or the results embed with your website layout. thats really kool its a little but tricky to totally embed it with your blog you have 2 different codes one for the form and other where you want search results to be appeared. you can also put your adsense code and earch some money out of your search results too.