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Gigablast

http://www.gigablast.com/

Key features

  • Giga Bits at the top of your results lists suggests related or similar searches
  • automatically links to older copies of web pages in the Wayback Machine
  • gives the date a page was indexed and any available information on when it was last modified

Search options

Default search type All of your words
Case sensitive? No
Wildcard/Truncation No
Phrases and proximity "……" For example "building society"
Mandatory search terms Plus sign (+) before words for example +wind +farms
Exclude pages containing a term Minus sign (-) before the word, for example
branson -balloon
Word in the URL suburl: for pages with the term in their URL, for example suburl:chocolate
Word in title title: for pages that contain the adjacent word in the title, for example title:chocolate
Linked pages link: for pages that link to a known URL, for example link:www.potato.org.uk

Exclude your starting page or site by using -host: for example link:www.potato.org.uk -host:www.potato.org.uk

Similar pages No
Limit by domain/site suburl: to limit by part of a domain name, for example suburl:uk for UK sites
site: to search one specific web site, for example site:statistics.gov.uk
File type type: to specify a file type, for example type:xls
PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Postscript files are currently supported.
Cached copy available Yes.
Boolean search AND, OR, AND NOT (must be in capital letters)
Specify language No
Limit by country No
Limit by date No
Unique features Giga Bits, Reference Pages and Related pages suggest alternative strategies and sources.

Results include links to text only versions of a page and to archived copies in the Wayback Machine.

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This page was last updated on 13 August, 2006 Copyright © 2006 Karen Blakeman