December 20, 2004

Custom-build your own search engine

by brian_turner

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thank you for visiting!

Search Engine Gigablast has made a surprise attack on the search engine market with a powerful new tool: custom build your own search engine, using Gigablast tecjnology to search up to 200 URLs: Build Your Own Topic Search Engine.

Initial play suggests that it’s a great idea, where practicable - up to a point. Unfortunately, the tech seems eager to return the same site multiple times for the same search term - so if a site contained the searchphrase as internal linking anchor text in a default navigation menu, then every page with the menu on bearing that searchphrase would be returned.

Is that simply a limitation of the Gigablast engine, or the actual custom search itself?

Either way, expect to see movement from the major players quickly following this up, to counter Gigablast’s otherwise surprise foray into the mainstream user base.

Still, it’s easy to see this catching on,

Discuss this in the Internet Business forums

Story link: Custom-build your own search engine

Add to Bookmarks: