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Gigablast is a full-text search engine that ofers a number of search options,
including for blogs, travel information, and government information.
Search results provide related phrases and query words, and sometimes
even related sites ( Figure 7.8 ).
Figure 7.8 gigablast shows related phrases at the top of its search results.
Note that the Advanced Search page has an option to search within a list of
sites you specify, which is handy if you want to search and monitor the results
from a group of sites instead of just one. Gigablast includes “Giga Bits” in its
search results, which may help give a few ideas for additional query words.
Monitoring News Search Engines
General search engines have the advantage of trying to index large quanti-
ties of the Web. hey have the disadvantage of dealing with huge sets of
information, of dealing with unstructured Web pages, and with indexing
Web pages that haven't been updated in months or years.
News search engines counterbalance these disadvantages. he sets of infor-
mation they index are much smaller, they are pretty much all news, and
most of the news search engines don't keep their index for more than 30
days. If the topic you want to trap is in any way related to current events,
news search engines are the way to go. Even if they aren't—you're into those
old woodworking tools, for example—it's worth it to set some traps at news