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Use Gigablast to Search the Web

By Wendy Boswell, About.com

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Gigablast also offers you the opportunities to try your search on the Open Directory, Google, Yahoo, MSN Search, and Teoma. In addition, you can choose to have your Gigablast Family Filter on, or off (the radio buttons are at the bottom of the search results pages).

Gigablast Advanced Search

You can do a lot of advanced searching with Gigablast Advanced Search, including word exclusion, phrase searching, restrict to certain URL's, site clustering to be turned on or off, results per page, etc. You can also check out the unique Gigablast Search Syntax that will take over where Gigablast Advanced Search leaves off.

Gigablast Search Options-Web, Directory, Blogs, Travel, Gov

As I've already mentioned, you have a few search options with Gigablast; the Web, obviously, but then you have a few more. Gigablast's Directory is a good resource, a solid directory and it seems to be comprised of some pretty good reference sites, primarily.

Gigablast Travel Search allows you to search Gigablast's entire index for just information related to travel; this could be anything from information about a specific destination to flight resources. I had fun searching for information about my home town, Portland, Oregon, and especially appreciated the extra Giga Bits my search turned up.

Why Should I Use Gigablast?

A couple of things that I especially like about Gigablast:
  • Gigablast is easy to use. There's not a lot of fancy features; it's focus is on straightforward and simple search.
  • Gigablast returns good results. I really like the Giga Bits search suggestions/search concepts deal as well.
  • Gigablast search options. The Gigablast blog, travel, and government searches, while not perfect, are definitely full of potential and returned some pretty good results.

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