Comments on: Free Prize Inside (Sometimes)

By: David

David — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 22:30:39 +0000

It's nice to see Gigablast finally getting some more exposure.

On the other hand, it's odd that their "submit URL" function has been disabled for some time now; one would think that they should want to increase the size of their index to make it more attractive to potential suitors.

By: Neville

Neville — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 21:55:01 +0000

I believe John meant that iWon ‘worked’ in the sense that it successfully induced Ask Jeeves to pay $343 million for ISH. Given a choice between MyWay or Excite’s ‘traffic’ and $343 million ($150 million of which was in cash), one might well prefer the latter.

By: pb

pb — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 19:18:43 +0000

"Remember iWon? It worked."

Not exactly. MyWay, in particular, and even Excite not only have much more traffic but also better economic models (i.e., they don't payout per search).

By: ZL

ZL — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 14:33:14 +0000

Gigablast has done other deals. It powers Bill Gross' new search engine (Snap.com) for instance. It's also a bit more than one person now, but is still truly amazing for the resources they have.

Like Craigslist, Gigablast poses a huge question mark over the whole services over the web industry going forward, which needs to be looking over its shoulder and asking in the immortal words of Butch Cassidy "who are those guys?"