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Information Literacy AllTheWeb.com. Jaime Chang Fall 2010. AllTheWeb.com. AllTheWeb.com is an Internet search engine that made its debut in the mid 1999’s. It was used primarily as a showpiece site for FAST's enterprise search engine .
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Information LiteracyAllTheWeb.com Jaime Chang Fall 2010
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.