It had been a long time Gigablast had remained fairly stagnant but seems to be preparing its revival both in design and algorithms, as they are preparing a focused mainly on the freshness of its contents.
They have now launched beta.Gigablast where we see this new format and organization, as well as a growth in the index. Making a quick study found that level of indexed pages (eg exaple.com), not wrong:
Ask 223
Exalead 948
Gigablast 3,600
Google 7,000
Live 45,600
Yahoo! 10,800