Search engine Gigablast gets a face lift

Rumor has it that Ask.com may abandon its own search engine technology in favor of Google. That would be a shame, as Google need all the competition it can get. If anything comes out of the Microsoft/Yahoo! merger we will end up with only two major search engine technologies.

There are others out there, though. Gigablast was relaunched in beta this week with a new and more contemporary design. One feature you should take a look at is its Freshness Dating, which lets you limit results to new sites in a simple way.

Gigablast’s boast about being more eco-friendly than Google does not make much sense to us, however. If Gigablast had the traffic of Google, they would also need many more energy hungry servers.

Another contender for the “serious alternative search engine field” — i.e. high quality search engines that have their own databases and their own algorithm — is French Exalead. Many librarians love that site due to its strong support of advanced Boolean searching.

Here are some of the search engine news stories we found interesting this week:

Google Webmaster Tools: Now On Your iGoogle Homepage

You can add the Webmaster Tools gadget to your iGoogle page and access information from there (SE Land Feb 28 2008)

The Google Killer - comScore (SCOR) Doomsday Scenario

QSearch showed a 7 percent decline in January ‘08 vs. December ‘07. Paid click annual growth? Flat for Google. (Search Engine Watch Feb 29 2008)

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