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As an open source engine, Gigablast is not expected to differentially treat any domain of search topic. As of January 2018, the [[ISGP]] site was hit #9 hit on Gigablast for the search term "[[Dutroux affair]]" (and was also in the top 10 for [[Yahoo]]<ref>http://archive.is/YvvFI</ref>, [[Bing]]<ref>http://archive.is/yQpNg</ref>, [[DuckDuckGo]]<ref>http://archive.is/jef5X</ref>, [[Ecosia]]<ref>http://archive.is/uepTg</ref> and [[Yandex]]<ref>http://archive.is/TJpue</ref>). By contrast [[Google]], [[StartPage]] and [[Ask.com]] all appeared to have blocked the domain for that search term - not listing it in the top 100 hits. | As an open source engine, Gigablast is not expected to differentially treat any domain of search topic. As of January 2018, the [[ISGP]] site was hit #9 hit on Gigablast for the search term "[[Dutroux affair]]" (and was also in the top 10 for [[Yahoo]]<ref>http://archive.is/YvvFI</ref>, [[Bing]]<ref>http://archive.is/yQpNg</ref>, [[DuckDuckGo]]<ref>http://archive.is/jef5X</ref>, [[Ecosia]]<ref>http://archive.is/uepTg</ref> and [[Yandex]]<ref>http://archive.is/TJpue</ref>). By contrast [[Google]], [[StartPage]] and [[Ask.com]] all appeared to have blocked the domain for that search term - not listing it in the top 100 hits. | ||
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| + | Gigablast did not list a page from this site on the search term "<font face=courier>Wikispooks [[7th floor group]]</font>"<ref>http://archive.is/P3Pe7</ref>, suggesting that the page may not have been indexed. [[Ask.com]]<ref>http://archive.is/SerFN</ref>, [[Bing]]<ref>http://archive.is/B0PPM</ref>, [[Google]]<ref>http://archive.is/e0KEk</ref> and [[Yahoo]]<ref>http://archive.is/X3cRY</ref> listed it as #1. | ||
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Revision as of 19:43, 28 January 2018
| An open source search engine written in C/C++. |
https://gigablast.com 
Founder: Matt Wells
Constitutes: search engine
Gigablast is an open source search engine, which was made up of 500,000 lines of C and C++ as of January 2015.[1]
Unbiased nature
As an open source engine, Gigablast is not expected to differentially treat any domain of search topic. As of January 2018, the ISGP site was hit #9 hit on Gigablast for the search term "Dutroux affair" (and was also in the top 10 for Yahoo[2], Bing[3], DuckDuckGo[4], Ecosia[5] and Yandex[6]). By contrast Google, StartPage and Ask.com all appeared to have blocked the domain for that search term - not listing it in the top 100 hits.
Smaller scope
Gigablast did not list a page from this site on the search term "Wikispooks 7th floor group"[7], suggesting that the page may not have been indexed. Ask.com[8], Bing[9], Google[10] and Yahoo[11] listed it as #1.
