Talk:Gigablast

Contested deletion
This page should not be speedily deleted because... (your reason here) --Wiki12rt (talk) 06:20, 2 September 2013 (UTC) It was deleted in the past from IPs that were ultimately identified as a single malicious user whose accounts were then banned. Many people have noticed that the Gigablast page is missing from Wikipedia and requested it be put back. The page is referenced by other Wikipedia pages such as the list of search engines page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines (a protected page!) where gigablast is listed (by other wikipedia editors) as both a general web search engine and an open source search engine. in fact, gigablast is cited by more pages than a large percentage of other topics that have wikipedia pages. a search for 'gigablast' on google yields around 1 million results. it has been used by tens of millions of people over the years and is the most noteworthy alternative search engine beyond google and bing in the United States. in general, the only wikipedia editors contesting the existence of the gigablast wikipedia page seem to not be familiar with the field of information retrieval.

here is a relevant excerpt from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Gigablast that shows the banned user, Ecoleetage:

Non-notable search engine, presented in an article that reads like marketing collateral. Dismally fails WP:RS (all of the references in the nominated article circle back to the Gigablast site). Ecoleetage (talk) 02:44, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

and here is what it says on ecoleetage's homepage: "This account has been blocked indefinitely because CheckUser confirms that the operator has abusively used one or more accounts."

it is likely a disgruntled employee or just a hater in general, and the gigablast article probably warrants some protection.

furthermore, the reasons given for deleting it in 2008 seemed to all be related to not having enough third party sources, which is by no means the case now. there were always plently of reliable third-party services referencing gigablast, but perhaps not mentioned until now in the wikipedia article.

also, the content of the gigablast wikipedia page was primarily taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Macrakis/Gigablast but was modified slightly to be more neutral and to include more reliablie third party references.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Wiki12rt (talk • contribs) 07:04, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Do not delete
Gigablast is a small independent search engine that has been covered in the search press. There's even an interview with its founder by Steve Kirsch, who is unquestionably an expert in search engines (as the founder of Infoseek). I have worked in the search industry for some years now, and have no business connection with Gigablast (though at one point one of my employers was considering contracting with them for certain services). Gigablast should be covered in WP. --Macrakis (talk) 16:21, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I was on the fence about at first about whether or not to nominate the article for deletion. It was Wiki12rt's abusive behavior which pushed my decision to "delete". If COI accounts keep on making bad edits to an article, then I tend towards recommending it for deletion. This has happened in a number of cases, most notably the case of the "Covenant Eyes" article, which was deleted earlier this year. &mdash;Unforgettableid (talk) 18:50, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Gigablast is one of the search sources of the meta search engine ixquick which was deemed notable enough to be on the List_of_search_engines. --Cpollett (talk) 05:21, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

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Proposal for internal search Engines (internal web crawlers) information
The focus seems to be all the time on search engines that search the open pages in the Internet not in the Intranet. There is a lack of information about Search Engines that can be used internally on private and possibly secret content. On that respect the normal tools of the operating systems are not enough to give significant results like sofisticated AI Search Engines like Google. Problem is that Google cannot be used to read private content, so companies are left with content often written with tools like Confluence that are eficient to create web pages but have ridiculously primitive search engines (if we can even call those tools that!). This makes the information less usable as what you can't search you can't read. So, as far as I could see on a short search was thist tool, Gigablast, and YaCy taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_search_engines There is a space for improvement of wikipedia articles like the above to aknowledge private web crawlers. AMCGT (talk) 09:27, 10 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Not sure why you're commenting on this issue here, but ... take a look at enterprise search (unfortunately, not a very good article) and List of enterprise search vendors. --Macrakis (talk) 12:41, 10 May 2022 (UTC)