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13 years ago

Im just about to check it out, but competition would be a good thing i spose?

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IsayHey

13 years ago

I submitted my site to it

it does seem good and brags about being very powerful, i havent actually compared the quality of the results though!

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thegolfer 13 years ago

Facebook has overtaken Google for traffic so why not another one ? Will be difficult to achieve though, so we will have to wait and see ?
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- Riz 13 years ago
  
  Facebook has taken over Google for traffic because it is a social networking site.
  
  In terms of a 'search engine' competitor it will be very difficult to take over Google anytime soon.
  
  The only real threat to Google is Facebook. They have the traffic and can establish a search engine that will compete against Google.
  
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  Facebook has overtaken Google for traffic so why not another one ? Will be difficult to achieve though, so we will have to wait and see ?
  
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pikeman

13 years ago

Gigablast has been around for years. Its SERPs suggest that it is easy to spam too, and relies too much on keywords in domains.

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Steven Miranda

13 years ago

The SERPs are ugly to me. I don't think Google will be overthrown anytime soon.

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bobsilber

13 years ago

It has been around for years and I hadn't heard of it.

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paulie888 13 years ago

Originally Posted by bobsilber

It has been around for years and I hadn't heard of it.

Same here, while this upstart may have some interesting features to offer, unless it becomes popular somehow among the mainstream users I doubt that it'll make any significant dent in Google's market share.
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- Tim_Hawksworth 13 years ago
  
  Well so much for Gigablast !
  
  Just to summarize:
  
  1) Looks like nobody has heard of it
  2) Nobody likes the name
  3) Nobody would remember the name
  4) Nobody likes the search results layout
  5) Nobody thinks the search results are any good.
  
  I don't think it has a lot going for it then.
  
  I bet Google is relieved
  
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desp12

13 years ago

damn first time i hear about it

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TheCG

13 years ago

That is one ugly results page.

I don't think the big G is in any immediate danger.

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bross 13 years ago

I think it can`t reach google for now. Maybe in tens or more years, but definitely not before.

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Ant Marshall

13 years ago

Ew. The look of the website it ugly.

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ScottTMk

13 years ago

I think Google has something Gigablast doesn't... that something is brand.

The amount of times you hear people say "Google it" when referring to the internet, shows that it is quite stuck in the mind of the consumers. Yes, I understand as we are all into the IM scene we will be more likely to see the other competitors, but for an everyday person who may use the internet for shopping/social networking... etc then Google is their first choice.

Facebook is the one to watch, with them testing their new search bar... It could make things interesting to say the least... Two large companies battling it out.

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MandoThrasher 13 years ago

Just go "gigablast" it. Hmmm doesn't do it for me.
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Tim_Hawksworth

13 years ago

I don't like the layout either.

Pretty much anyone could spend a couple of hours with
the code and make it look a lot better.

-- strange --

Mind you it is fast.

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bross 13 years ago

[QUOTE=Tim_Hawksworth;3686053]I don't like the layout either.

Pretty much anyone could spend a couple of hours with
the code and make it look a lot better.

Totally agree with that.
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GeorgR.

13 years ago

Not a chance without anything really NEW which is different to Google. Just a simple Google "clone" doesnt cut it. So..why should it be "better"?

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A P Geofrey

13 years ago

Funny I am hearing about it too for the first time. And it has been around for years, so No the big G is not in any danger. But thanks for the info though.

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John Romaine

13 years ago

Ill bet you that Facebook Search will be outdoing Google Search within 12 months.

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peter gibson 13 years ago

Originally Posted by ramone_johnny

Ill bet you that Facebook Search will be outdoing Google Search within 12 months.

I'll lay $100 clams on that right now.
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schttrj 13 years ago

Originally Posted by IsayHey

I submitted my site to it
it does seem good and brags about being very powerful, i havent actually compared the quality of the results though!

Quality depends from user to user.

Originally Posted by thegolfer

Facebook has overtaken Google for traffic so why not another one ? Will be difficult to achieve though, so we will have to wait and see ?

People use it for a different purpose than Google.

Originally Posted by ramone_johnny

Ill bet you that Facebook Search will be outdoing Google Search within 12 months.

It's hypothetical. If Facebook is improving, Google ain't sitting on its ass. It's making some major mergers and acquisitions, if you know.
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tpw

13 years ago

I remember that Ask and Cuil were touted to be Google-killers too.

Both failed to achieve their stated goals.

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Dan C. Rinnert 13 years ago

Originally Posted by tpw

I remember that Ask and Cuil were touted to be Google-killers too.

Both failed to achieve their stated goals.

On the flip side, I remember people not believing Google would ever overtake Yahoo.
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- John Romaine 13 years ago
  
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Birdi

13 years ago

i dont think google will be overthrown..... this is completley news to me.. but i do beleive google will have a bit of competition but not that much... not yet anyway. But competiton is healthy keeps the markets on there toes.

but something i have just learnt ...

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nazee

13 years ago

i think google can never be toppeld

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poweraff

13 years ago

i really do not think this can beat google,
Google is much advanced

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Tim_Hawksworth 13 years ago

I think it comes down to what the search results are like.

With the Internet expanding and new technologies merging, I think
that something better could be done.

Maybe getting a "texting search engine" to index the iphones
or something ?

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- King Louie 13 years ago
  
  Google is so embedded in the minds of people, it will take something extremely special to overtake it. I just don't see Gigablast as something special to threaten Google, aside from its boast of green energy.
  
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IcedSEO-CEO

Banned 13 years ago

Darn! the SERPs are just rubbish, I wonder how it pulls it's data

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Dave Rodman

Banned 13 years ago

I don't think people are really searching for a better search engine. When Google took over, search results sucked. Now they don't. So I'm not sure what would compel people to switch.

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tpw

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Dave Rodman

I don't think people are really searching for a better search engine. When Google took over, search results sucked. Now they don't. So I'm not sure what would compel people to switch.

I agree in principle Dave.

I remember reading an article about a year ago that was talking about the challenges that Bing is having in overcoming Google.

The author (a well-known SEO person, although I cannot remember who at the moment :p) documented several examples where Bing results were better than Google, and a few more examples where Google still ruled the results.

He went on to say that given the examples of Bing crushing Google, you would think that Bing could take market share. But at the time the article was written, Bing had been live for nearly a year and had only drained market share from Yahoo.

He observed that most people using Google do so by habit. He noted that many people like me have the Google toolbar installed, and we use it to start most searches.

He said that Bing winning market share from Google was going to be just as difficult as it is for me to quit smoking.

Often times, it is not the desire for nicotine that keeps us smoking, but rather the habit of having something in our hands and mouths. Which is also why a lot of people will gain a lot of weight when they quit smoking. :p

Before people will switch the "habit", they will need to realize that Bing is crushing Google in the quality game in a number of instances. But if people try Bing and only see those queries where Google still reigns supreme, the battle will be lost quickly, and people will return to Google.

People will need to see the Bing crush to consider changing. And then they must actively decide to change their habits, before Bing can win the war.

So now that the OP is talking about Gigiblast, the challenge remains the same. Who knows if it has better search results? And if it does have better search results, that is only a very small part of the challenge they will face if they hope to unseat Google.

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TheCG

13 years ago

Originally Posted by tpw

I agree in principle Dave.

I remember reading an article about a year ago that was talking about the challenges that Bing is having in overcoming Google.

The author (a well-known SEO person, although I cannot remember who at the moment :p) documented several examples where Bing results were better than Google, and a few more examples where Google still ruled the results.

He went on to say that given the examples of Bing crushing Google, you would think that Bing could take market share. But at the time the article was written, Bing had been live for nearly a year and had only drained market share from Yahoo.

He observed that most people using Google do so by habit. He noted that many people like me have the Google toolbar installed, and we use it to start most searches.

He said that Bing winning market share from Google was going to be just as difficult as it is for me to quit smoking.

Often times, it is not the desire for nicotine that keeps us smoking, but rather the habit of having something in our hands and mouths. Which is also why a lot of people will gain a lot of weight when they quit smoking. :p

Before people will switch the "habit", they will need to realize that Bing is crushing Google in the quality game in a number of instances. But if people try Bing and only see those queries where Google still reigns supreme, the battle will be lost quickly, and people will return to Google.

People will need to see the Bing crush to consider changing. And then they must actively decide to change their habits, before Bing can win the war.

So now that the OP is talking about Gigiblast, the challenge remains the same. Who knows if it has better search results? And if it does have better search results, that is only a very small part of the challenge they will face if they hope to unseat Google.

That is true, it is pretty much habit.

When I met my girlfriend, I was surprised to find thet she was a Yahoo searcher and even though I do what I do and she hears about Google all the time with me, she is still a Yahoo searcher. Just what she likes, I guess.

Why was I surprised? I dunno. A few years ago, I Yahooed, too.

Remember the commercials? Yahoooooooooooooooooooo

LOL

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mojojuju

13 years ago

I just tried it. It's slow and the results it returned for my query were awful.

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Derek S 13 years ago

LOL check out gigablast.com - Quantcast Audience Profile and I think you will find humor in this post!!

I personally cannot stand how right justified the results are for some reason. Hurts my eyes to start reading that close to the edge of my screen lol.
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- Tim_Hawksworth 13 years ago
  
  I just tried it. It's slow and the results it returned for my query were awful.
  
  Funny that,
  
  When I use it I get the results back almost
  instantaneously.
  
  Miles faster than Google.
  
  My sites come up higher on Google than they do on Gigablast
  so presently I prefer Google.
  
  I will have to check my stats to see it I have ever
  received hits from Gigablast
  
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ClickPimpsta

13 years ago

i don't show up first for one of my keywords as i do on google... they must go!

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Tim_Hawksworth 13 years ago

Did anyone see any traffic from this
SE ?

I think that would be the test.
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E. Brian Rose

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Tim_Hawksworth

Can Google really be toppled ?

Altavista was toppled.
MySpace was toppled.
Yahoo was surpassed.
General Motors went belly up.
Enron went bust.

Sure, they can be toppled, but probably not by the site that you are asking about.

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AgentHomes

13 years ago

Originally Posted by E. Brian Rose

Altavista was toppled.
MySpace was toppled.
Yahoo was surpassed.
General Motors went belly up.
Enron went bust.

Sure, they can be toppled, but probably not by the site that you are asking about.

Competition to keep google motitaved is good.

However, I have never Myspaced, Yahooed, General Motored or Enroned ... but I have Googled alot even when I'm using Bing.

The competition for Google is from Bing / Yahoo and the big $$$ budgets they can spend to be competitive. Not from a search engine with no brand awareness.

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seegreen88

13 years ago

i didn't hear about it but if its true than its good there should be a good competition.

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Mr Lim

13 years ago

Never heard of Gigiblast, something really new.

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Tim_Hawksworth 13 years ago

Altavista was toppled.
MySpace was toppled.
Yahoo was surpassed.
General Motors went belly up.
Enron went bust.

All good points.

I am thinking though : is Gigiblast a good name ?

Maybe the idea is that the SE is Blasting through Gigabites of info
to find your best answers ?

So many people here say they haven't heard of it though -
perhaps they are not so hot on marketing ?
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Sweely99

13 years ago

Not only was the SERP ugly, the results were bad as well.

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Tim_Hawksworth 13 years ago

How did you test it ?

the results were bad as well.

What was the search that you tried - how did it differ from Google ?
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tritrain

13 years ago

Well, I suppose anything is possible.

Look at how Firefox and Chrome took back the browser market, when IE was considered to be unstoppable.

Added some of my domains too.

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doorkicker13

13 years ago

Give it a few weeks and Google will probably acquire GigaBlast. I'm not going to be surprised the day Google announces they have their own space program.

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azam 13 years ago

Bing, whilst it still has a long way to go IS slowly increasing market share month on month, often at Google's expense.

Bing seems the next most likely candidate to become a thorn in Google's side (Facebook already is), especially considering its partnership with Facebook. That could do a lot to help break habits, simply because many of Facebook's 500 million users will probably like it when they discover they can see their friends "likes" displayed within the search results on Bing.
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vinnz21

13 years ago

Nice, it seems that this site is new, I am looking forward into this.

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Steven Dybka

13 years ago

The bigger question is the world already knows and trusts the big 3 Google,Yahoo and Bing,why would they need a forth.

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christopher jon

13 years ago

a New Mexican Software Engineer

Shouldn't that be an American Software Engineer? New Mexico is a state.

You can use state citizenship but it makes more sense to use the country when addressing a global audience unless you're referring to a globally known state such as Texas or California.

People say it is set to challenge Google.

What people?

Does anyone use it regularly ?

Never heard of it.

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LiamElliott

13 years ago

Nothing within the next 5 years will be able to challenge Google directly. Google wasn't build in a day. In my opinion, Google has no competitors. They are far too widespread to be taken down easily.

This is exactly the same thing people said about bing, and where did it end up?

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Rod Cortez

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Tim_Hawksworth

I am reading more and more about GigaBlast

People say it is set to challenge Google.

Highly doubtful. Google will be toppled some day, but not by Gigablast and not anytime soon.

Apparently been created by a New Mexican Software Engineer,
and some say it's producing better search results than big G.

That has not been my experience, nor the experience of our 8 staff members.

Does anyone use it regularly ?

I sure don't.

Can Google really be toppled ?

Any company can be toppled. I remember the days when Yahoo! was number one and people said Google would never overtake it. Google can be toppled, especially if they get sloppy. But if I were gambling man I would not bet on Gigablast.

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nicholasb

13 years ago

I hope they get super big, and let us run ads on their site like yaho, google and msn, I would be one happy marketer.

the more big search engines out there the better it is for me.

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kindsvater

13 years ago

The big challenger to Google is ....

Lycos.

Yep.

Been around longer - so more experienced in the search engine game.

Better results - not so many spammy sites

OK - maybe not a challenger anymore. But it should be. Google's results are terrible. Been years since I tried Lycos, and you know what? Decent results.

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popopdc

13 years ago

The website with the best chance to compete with Google is Facebook if they decide to go in that direction.

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omk

13 years ago

Anybody can be toppled, given enough time and money. Look at how mi*cro*soft toppled Net*scape, years ago. As far as this new threat to big G. , I would say no. The next company to topple big G. would probably be outside of the search space. FB right now is the main contender that seems to be their main threat.

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Trivum

13 years ago

Just checked out a popular term in a niche I work in ... it's WAY, WAY, WAY off.

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bobsstuff

13 years ago

Google is like ebay, the biggest with the "mostest".

If you want a friend to look up something on the internet, you tell them to, "just google it". I doubt if "gigablast it" will become a catch phase ------Of course I have been wrong, so you never know.

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JBrooks

13 years ago

well the name isn't as catchy as Bing or Google.

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dabbler

13 years ago

Interesting article on Mashable about Bing overtaking Google.
mashable.com/2011/04/11/bing-search-growth/

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Rob Marr

13 years ago

Front interface doesn't look appealing to me but when you do a search the layout of the text is structured and uniform. We'll just see in the 50 years if it'll beat google.

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terrencewan

13 years ago

People are too use to Google,
it becomes a daily habits to them,
so unlikely any site can takeover
Google, unless they are giving out
very good deals to use their site.
Like what Facebook are doing.

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