gigablast/open-source-search-engine
Nov 20 2017 -- A distributed open source search engine and spider/crawler written in C/C++ for Linux on Intel/AMD. From gigablast dot com, which has binaries for download. See the README.md file at the very bottom of this page for instructions. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
32/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4779
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 966
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1601 stars · 456 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Gigablast is a distributed open source web and enterprise search engine with a built-in spider/crawler, written in C/C++ for Linux. It powers gigablast.com and can index and search large collections of web pages across multiple machines.
Use cases
- run my own web search engine
- crawl and index websites at scale
- self-host an enterprise document search engine
- build a distributed search cluster
- spider the web and build a searchable index
- replace Google with a private search engine
When to choose
- you need a self-contained, distributed search engine with crawling built in
- you want a proven C++ engine that runs on commodity Linux hardware
- you need to index billions of pages across multiple nodes
When to avoid
- you just need full-text search over your own data without crawling (use Elasticsearch or Meilisearch)
- you need an actively developed project with a large community
- you need Windows or macOS support
Facets
application · maturity maintenance
search-engine web-scraping http-server crawlers developer-tools cpp distributed-search web-crawler spider enterprise-search c-plus-plus search linux
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/gigablast/open-source-search-engine · fetched 2026-08-28 · 0a039f631e77
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| gigablast/open-source-search-engine | main | 32 |
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