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From Pandia -- Fast AlltheWeb Q-card and from Alltheweb, Query Prefixes - shortcuts to using the calculator and to specifying the collection to search web, pics, video, audio.
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+ searches Google, Ask Jeeves, Yahoo, Altavista, Teoma, Fast etc -- hold on - no one has called Alltheweb Fast for a year or so.
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Hotbot has dropped Alltheweb from its roster of four.
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Some of these choices are bizarre: Open Directory Project is a directory not a search engine - one does not use it in the same way; Wikipedia is a encyclopedia of sorts; Alltheweb and Altavista are clones of Yahoo with almost identical search results sets - Alltheweb has the pleasing Livesearch interface but Altavista is stuck in 2000.
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It has 8 engines including Yahoo and its two offspring, Altavista and Alltheweb, Hotbot and Netscape presumably with Google content, and MSN and Wisenut - not a pay-per-click on the list.
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Alltheweb and Altavista are on the list - rather pointless since they use the Yahoo database.
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Indeed you can - click on Show Sources on the front page and select from Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask, Exalead, Alltheweb, and Gigablast for the web search.
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Sherman thought the interesting point was that Altavista and Alltheweb came out as better on web search - Stop Presses!
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Microsoft has made an offer to acquire Fast Search and Transfer, the company that developed Alltheweb search engine years ago (and Yahoo bought).
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Five years have passed since Yahoo broke with Google to launch its own search engine that it built from its acquisitions of Inktomi, Altavista, and Alltheweb.
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