Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Gigablast has indexed 12 billion pages

[David Hedlund]

On 2017-04-25 16:12, Pen-Yuan Hsing wrote:
> On 25/04/17 15:02, David Hedlund wrote:
> >  From 2015: "Reliable. Has been tested in live production since 2002 
> > on billions of queries on an index of over 12 billion unique web 
> > pages, 24 billion mirrored." - 
> > http://www.gigablast.com/admin.html#features
> >
> > This is new for me. If this is true it means that Gigablast is the 
> > leading free search engine by far.
> >
> > I added GigaBlast Search to 
> > https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Free_Software_Directory:IceCat_extensions_(proposed)
>
> Thank you David for sharing this, I've never heard of GigaBlast until 
> now. General question: What do you and others who have used it think 
> of its functionality? Does it work well as your "day to day" workhorse 
> search engine? And how does it compare to other privacy-touting search 
> engines such as Startpage, Searx, or DuckDuckGo?
>
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GigaBlast is useful for general web search.

The first article I started on Wikipedia (2013) was actually 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_search_engines You can 
find everything you want to know there.

For more OpenSearch-based engines see: 
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Free_Software_Directory:IceCat_extensions_(proposed)#OpenSearch