Gigablast
Home page as of January 2019 | |
Type of site | Search engine |
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| Available in | English |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Dissolved | April 2023 |
| Headquarters | Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States |
| Owner | Gigablast, Inc. |
| Created by | Matt Wells |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 2002 |
| Current status | Offline |
| Written in | C/C++ |
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| Developer(s) | Matt Wells |
| Final release | 1.20-1 (x64, i386)
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| Repository | https://github.com/gigablast/open-source-search-engine |
| Written in | C/C++ |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Type | search engine |
| License | Apache License 2.0 |
| Website | www |
Gigablast was an American free and open-source web search engine and directory. Founded in 2000, it was an independent engine and web crawler, developed and maintained by Matt Wells, a former Infoseek employee and New Mexico Tech graduate. During early April 2023, the website went offline without warning and without any official statement.
The open-source search engine source code is written in the programming languages C and C++. It was released as open-source software under the Apache License version 2, in July 2013. In 2015, Gigablast claimed to have indexed over 12 billion web pages.
The Gigablast engine provided search results to other companies at various times, including Ixquick, Clusty, Zuula, Snap, Blingo, and Internet Archive.