Screenshot of AlltheWeb

AlltheWeb is a major search engine which debuted in mid-1999. It grew out from FTP Search, Tor Egges doctorate thesis at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, which he started on in 1994, which in turn resulted in the formation of Fast Search and Transfer established on July 16, 1997.^[1] It was used primarily as a show piece site for FAST's enterprise search engine. Although rivaling Google in size and technology, AlltheWeb never became as popular. Screenshot of AlltheWeb. ... Screenshot of AlltheWeb. ... A search engine or search service is a program designed to help find information stored on a computer system such as the World Wide Web, inside a corporate or proprietary network or a personal computer. ... Look up thesis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, known by its Norwegian acronym NTNU (from Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet), is located in Trondheim and is attended by about 20,000 students. ... Norwegian company Fast Search & Transfer ASA (recursive acronym FAST), based in Oslo, focuses on enterprise real-time data search technologies. ... July 16 is the 197th day (198th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 168 days remaining. ... Googles main pages unusually spartan design, uncluttered appearance and quick loading time have contributed greatly to the sites mass appeal. ...

AlltheWeb in fact had a few advantages over Google, such as a fresher database, more advanced search features, search clustering and a completely customizable look. In February 2003 Fast's web search division was bought by Overture. In March 2004 Overture itself was taken over by Yahoo!. Shortly after Yahoo!'s acquisition, the AlltheWeb site started using Yahoo!'s database and some of the advanced features were removed, such as FTP search. Yahoo! Search Marketing (formerly Overture Services, Inc. ... Yahoo! - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... FTP or file transfer protocol is a commonly used protocol for exchanging files over any network that supports the TCP/IP protocol (such as the Internet or an intranet). ...

When AlltheWeb started in 1999, Fast Search and Transfer aimed to provide their database to other search engines, copying the successful case of Inktomi. Indeed, in January 2000, Lycos used their results in the Lycos PRO search. By that time, the AlltheWeb database grew from 80 million URIs to 200 million. Their aim was to index all the publicly-accessible web. Their crawler indexed over 2 billion pages by June 2002 and started a fresh round of the search engine size war. Before their purchase by Yahoo!, the database contained about 3.3 billion URIs. This article is about the year 2000. ... A screenshot of Lycos. ... A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), is a compact string of characters used to identify or name a resource. ...

AlltheWeb is famed for giving Google a run for its money. It often overtook Google in terms of the number of pages indexed, only to be outdone by the latter in a matter of a few days. Alltheweb is also famous for its simple page layout. One of the somewhat unique things about AlltheWeb is that it will give results including different pages of the same site. AlltheWeb is still able to compete with Google in the fact that it allows for searching of only audio files: something Google and most other search engines are not able to do.

See also

• AltaVista

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References

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External links

• AlltheWeb