Gigablast
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Gigablast was an American free and open-source web search engine and directory. Founded in 2000, it was an independent engine and web crawler, developed and maintained by Matt Wells, a former Infoseek employee and New Mexico Tech graduate. During early April 2023, the website went offline without warning and without any official statement.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- search engine
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- New Mexico
- Official website
- www.gigablast.com
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- copyright license
- Apache License
- product or material produced
- search engine
- operating system
- Linux
- Alexa rank
- 109801
- programmed in
- C
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Background
- Features
- Acquisition
- Critical reception
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Gigablast was an American free and open-source web search engine and directory. Founded in 2000, it was an independent engine and web crawler, developed and maintained by Matt Wells, a former Infoseek employee and New Mexico Tech graduate. 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. In 2015, Gigablast claimed to have indexed over 12 billion web pages.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gigablast” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.