| Hyper Scalable |
Scales to 200 billion full pages and 100,000
servers. |
| Efficient |
Uses very few computers to support a huge index and a large number
of queries per second. |
| Simple Interface |
Get the search results via an XML
feed. |
| Web
Directory |
Allows searching of all the sites in a particular
topic, not just the pages. All directory pages can be returned through
the XML feed, too. |
| Gigabot |
Gigablast's fast and feature-rich spider is highly configurable. |
| Gigablast Answers Questions |
Gigablast now has the ability to answer questions
with short answers. |
| Document Injection |
Bypass the spider and inject your documents directly into Gigablast
using simple HTTP POSTs or GETs. |
| Real-Time |
URLs are indexed in real-time. Link analysis is done on the fly. |
| Intelligent Update |
Determines the update cycle of each document and tries to spider
it at that frequency. |
| Duplicate Detection |
Spider can detect and discard duplicate web pages. |
| Dual Mode |
Uses idle cycles to spider and index documents, but will quickly
yield resources to handle incoming queries. |
| Maintainable |
Comprehensive web-based GUI controls make it easy to administer. |
| Spam Protection |
Features a large array of anti-spam tools and algorithms used
to keep spam out of the index. |
| Document Cache |
Has a cache to hold user-viewable copies of the pages it spiders
and indexes. Obeys nocache meta tags as specified here. |
| Historic Cache |
Spider can hold documents in the index long after they are 404. |
| HTTPS support |
Can spider and serve HTTPS pages. |
| robots.txt |
The Gigablast spiders support
the robots.txt standard as well as certain related meta tags. |
| Multiple Formats |
Indexes PDF, Microsoft Word, Power Point , Excel and Postscript
documents. Supports user-definable filters. |
| Dynamic Summaries |
Search result summaries are generated so that they contain the
query terms. |
| Term Highlighting |
Performs query term highlighting on the view of cached pages and
on the dynamic summaries. |
| Robust Query Syntax |
Features many different field searches, + and - operators. |
| Family Filter |
Removes pages with undesirable content from the search results. |
| Sort by date |
Sorts search results by date, very fast and with 100% accuracy. |
| Query Refinement |
Search within a set of search results. |
| Advanced
Search |
Allows users to perform power searches quickly and easily.
|
| Site Clustering |
Can optionally cluster away results from the same web site, so
the list of search results is not dominated by any one site. |
| Fuzzy Deduping |
Automatically removes search results that are X% similar to an
above result, where X is adjustable. |
| Query Weighting |
Custom weight the query terms exactly how you want.
|
| Super Recall |
Returns extra results which only have some of the query terms. |
| Spell Checking |
Performs spell checking based on a dictionary that is constructed
from the index. Add your own words and phrases, too. |
| Huge Document Support |
Index documents that are hundreds of Megabytes in size. |
| Huge Result Sets |
Receive hundreds of thousands of results per page. |
| Related Topics |
Dynamically generated on a per query basis. (aka Gigabits) |
| Reference Pages |
Generates sets of expert web sites which contain lists of links
relevant to the query. |
| Related Pages |
Generates related web sites which may not even include the query
terms. |
| Custom Topic Search |
Constrain searches to a list of up to 500 sites. |
| Default AND Capable |
Can easily limit search results to only pages that have all the
query terms. |
| Boolean Queries |
Supports complex nested boolean queries using AND, OR and NOT
operators. |
| Turing Test |
Uses simple Turing test to prevent real-time addurl
abuse. |
| Redundancy |
If one server goes down then its twins take over for it. |
| Error Correction |
Corrupted data is automatically detected and patched from a mirror
host. |
| Load Balancing |
Gigablast intelligently distributes load evenly among all hosts
in the network. |
| Collections |
Allows the administrator to partition the index into many sub
indexes. |
