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January 14, 2004AlltheWeb Prepares To Change Privacy Policy
AlltheWeb has an announcement down at the bottom of their page that their privacy policy will change as of February 7. The new privacy policy and the old privacy policy are both available at http://www.alltheweb.com/info/about/privacy_policy_2004 . From a quick glance...
Continue reading "AlltheWeb Prepares To Change Privacy Policy" » May 29, 2003AlltheWeb Now Offers Spellcheck
You GO, AlltheWeb. Though they've been purchased byOverture, AlltheWeb ( http://www.alltheweb.com) continues to upgrade their searchofferings. Now they're offering spellcheck. Enter a search query and if AlltheWeb can offer a spellcheck for it, they will. Search for "elviz" and you'll...
March 04, 2003AlltheWeb Changes Look, Updates Offerings
AlltheWeb ( http://www.alltheweb.com ) has "retired" its skin contest winners and is offering some new skins. I'm annoyed. I *liked* that medieval skin. But no matter. There are several other skins that you can use with the search engine,...
Continue reading "AlltheWeb Changes Look, Updates Offerings" » January 22, 2003AlltheWeb Updates Its Search Technology
AlltheWeb has introduced several little tweaks and twackas in its ongoing quest to make Google look over its shoulder. First of all, AlltheWeb now automatically determines the visitor's country of origin and presents page results in their local language...
Continue reading "AlltheWeb Updates Its Search Technology" » January 01, 2003Gary Price Figures Out AlltheWeb's Filetype Syntax
Big props to super librarian Gary Price for figuring out the special syntax for searching by file type on AlltheWeb. I had figured out it was filetype, but hadn't figured out what the document types were. He got them. You...
Continue reading "Gary Price Figures Out AlltheWeb's Filetype Syntax" » December 20, 2002FAST Increases Relevance, Begins Indexing Word Docs
Search engine FAST, otherwise known as AlltheWeb ( http://www.alltheweb.com ) has announced an increased relevance to its search results. Their announcement includes the quote, "FAST has added the use of the proximity of search terms within a document to its...
Continue reading "FAST Increases Relevance, Begins Indexing Word Docs" » December 11, 2002AlltheWeb Announces Contest Winners
AlltheWeb has announced the winners of the Alchemist contest. You can check out (and apply) the winning skins at http://www.alltheweb.com/help/alchemist/contest_winners.html . The "Medieval Manuscript" is really cool looking -- and easy to read!...
November 02, 2002Skins from AlltheWeb
Search engine AlltheWeb ( http://www.alltheweb.com ) has gotten in on the act of changing their search engine on holidays. But instead of altering their logo as Google does, they've started creating "skins." A "skin" is a CSS (cascading style sheet)...
September 16, 2002AlltheWeb's Search Engine Offers New Options
I always like to see competition in the search engine world. If Google's bothering to look back over their shoulders for anybody, it better be AlltheWeb. AlltheWeb continues to offer fun search options and some cool tech. Check out their...
Continue reading "AlltheWeb's Search Engine Offers New Options" » June 25, 2002Cool Advanced Options from AlltheWeb
I must confess I really don't like the "Google Killer" articles that have been popping up lately about Teoma and now AlltheWeb. I didn't think that the idea was to "kill" Google -- I thought the idea was to make...
April 13, 2002AlltheWeb Correction
On Wednesday I did a mini-shootout of AlltheWeb topics and noted that a search for "radiology" offered no topic suggestions. Well, as it turned out I managed to do the search at exactly the right time some work was being...
November 13, 2001New Article: Search Engine FAST Unrolls New Index
Search engine FAST ( http://www.alltheweb.com ), which with Northern Light belongs in the "good but less known" groups of search engines, has revamped its site and rolled out a new look with new features and an exciting news search engine.......
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