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Gigablast Keyword Highlighting and OR

A few minor updates at Gigablast announced today include better keyword highlighting. The default of an OR on multi-word searches remains, unlike all major search engines and hearkening back to search engines of the late 1990s. However, they now put a teal bar at top or search engine results pages where the default OR was used which links to an explanation and states
"The results below may not have all your query terms, but may be relevant. Try generalizing your query. [Info]"

Sorry, but I think Gigablast just needs to default to AND like most people expect and the major search engines all do. I find the default OR frustrating enough that I will skip a try at Gigablast just for that reason sometimes. Also, Gigablast announced that "When returning a page of search results Gigablast lets you know how long ago that page was cached by displaying a small message at the bottom of that page." However, you only see that if someone else has done that same search recently. These are different from the dates at the top of the cached page, and Gigablast still does a far better job than any other search engine at honestly stating when they crawled a Web page and the date reported at that time.

Dated Jul 17, 2003 in Gigablast


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