Founded in 2000, Gigablast was created to index up to 200 Billion pages with the least amount of hardware possible. Gigablast provides large-scale, high-performance, real-time information retrieval technology for partner sites. The company offers a variety of features including topic generation and the ability to index multiple document formats. In addition, the Gigablast website provides unique “Gigabits” of information, enabling visitors to easily refine their search based upon related topics from search results.

Matt, where does the name Gigablast come from?

Matt Wells: “Gigablast came from me taking powerful prefix and suffix snippets at random and gluing them together. Some of the other snippets I tried: giga mega tera peta uber tech accu blast data web slurp. Almost every word I formed was already owned, but I noticed that gigablast was about to expire, so I jumped on it.”

GigaBlast is an environmentally friendly search engine!

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