AlltheWeb
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Type of site | Web search engine |
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| Launched | 1999 (as Fast) |
| Current status | Closed, Shut down by Yahoo! |
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AlltheWeb (sometimes referred to as FAST or FAST Search[1]) was an Internet search engine. It originated from FTP Search, the doctorate thesis project of Tor Egge at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Egge began the work in 1994, and it later led to the creation of Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), founded on July 16, 1997. AlltheWeb launched in mid-1999. It was acquired by Yahoo in 2003. Yahoo shut it down in 2011.[2]
Traits
When AlltheWeb started in 1999, FAST aimed to provide their database to other search engines, major portals, Internet service providers and content sites.[3] By August 2, 1999, the AlltheWeb database had grown to 200 million unique URLs.[3] By June 2002, their crawler had indexed over 2 billion pages.[4]
AlltheWeb claimed a few advantages over Google, such as a fresher database, more advanced search features, search clustering and a completely customizable look.[4][5][6]
Closure
In February 2003, FAST's web search division was bought by Overture for $70 million.[7] In July 2003, Overture was acquired by Yahoo!, putting AlltheWeb under the ownership of Yahoo!.[8] Shortly after Yahoo!'s acquisition, the AlltheWeb site started using Yahoo!'s database and some of the advanced functions were removed, such as FTP search and direct image search.[citation needed]
In May 2006, Yahoo! started testing live search results on AlltheWeb.[9]
On April 4, 2011, AlltheWeb was shut down by Yahoo!.[10]
See also
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Gemini No.1 January 1999". NTNU. Retrieved 2006-06-18.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Fast Search & Transfer - World's Biggest Internet Search Engine Goes Online". 1999-11-23. Archived from the original on 1999-11-23. Retrieved 2018-11-27.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."FAST's ALLTHEWEB.COM dethrones Google as the world's largest search engine" (Press release). Fast Search & Transfer. 2002-06-17. Archived from the original on 27 December 2006. Retrieved 2006-12-17.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Fast launches ALLTHEWEB.COM Alchemist customized search tool" (Press release). Fast Search & Transfer. 2006-06-25. Archived from the original on 25 December 2006. Retrieved 2006-12-17.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."AllTheWeb Now A Better Search Experience Than Google". Microdoc News. 2002-06-17. Archived from the original on 2003-07-04. Retrieved 2006-12-17.
- ^ Danny Sullivan. Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Overture To Buy FAST Web Search Division". Search Engine Watch. 2003-02-27. Archived from the original on 2003-02-27. Retrieved 2018-11-27.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Yahoo! Media Relations - Press Release". 2007-07-08. Archived from the original on 2007-07-08. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sullivan, Danny (2006-05-10). "Yahoo Tests Livesearch On AllTheWeb; Google Patent Problem, Perhaps?". Search Engine Watch. Archived from the original on 2009-04-24. Retrieved 2019-02-10.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Rao, Leena (March 18, 2011). "The Sun Will Set For Yahoo's AlltheWeb On April 4". TechCrunch. Archived from the original on 13 April 2011. Retrieved April 6, 2011.
External links
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."wayback archive of website". Archived from the original on 1999-10-12. Retrieved 2004-04-23.
- Alltheweb.es search Engine (archived).
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