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Exploring AllTheWeb.com: A Powerful Yet Underappreciated Search Engine

AllTheWeb.com, launched in the mid-1990s, was a pioneering internet search engine that showcased FAST's advanced search technology. While it once rivaled Google, its popularity never materialized. Advantages included a fresher database and superior search features like clustering and customization. After Yahoo! acquired it, some features were lost, but AllTheWeb.com still offered a robust collection of billions of web pages and specialized tools across 36 languages. With its multimedia capabilities and up-to-the-minute news, it remains a noteworthy option for information seekers.

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Exploring AllTheWeb.com: A Powerful Yet Underappreciated Search Engine

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  1. Information LiteracyAllTheWeb.com Jaime Chang Fall 2010

  2. AllTheWeb.com • AllTheWeb.comis an Internetsearch engine that made its debut in the mid 1999’s. • It was used primarily as a showpiece site for FAST's enterprise search engine. • Although at one time rivaling Google in size and technology, AllTheWeb.com never became popular.

  3. AllTheWeb.com • AllTheWeb.comhad a few advantages over Google, such as a fresher database, more advanced search features, search clustering and a completely customizable look. • Shortly after Yahoo!'s acquisition, the AllTheWeb.comsite started using Yahoo!'s database and some of the advanced features were removed, such as FTP search.

  4. AllTheWeb.com • AllTheWebcombines one of the largest and freshest indices with the most powerful search features that allow anyone to find anything faster than with any other search engine.

  5. AllTheWeb.com • AllTheWeb'sindex (provided by Yahoo!) includes billions of web pages, as well as tens of millions of PDF and MS Word® files. Yahoo! frequently scans the entire web to ensure that our content is fresh and to eliminate broken links.

  6. AllTheWeb.com • AllTheWeb.comoffers a variety of specialized search tools and advanced search features, and supports searching in 36 different languages.
 • Their News search (provided by Yahoo!) offers up to the minute news from thousands of news sources all across the globe, with hundreds of stories indexed every minute.

  7. AllTheWeb.com • Their image, audio, and video searches include hundreds of millions of multimedia files. • Most importantly, AllTheWeb.comprovides you with the controls necessary to find exactly what you are looking for, including some of the most sophisticated advanced search features available.

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