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AllTheWeb Claims Bigger Index Than Google

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the necessary-but-is-it-sufficient dept.

An anonymous readers writes: "Hoping to attract more mass appeal for an online search engine with a cult following, Norwegian search engine AlltheWeb on Monday declared that it indexes more Internet information than longtime pacesetter Google. Boston.com has the story." Of course, pages indexed is not the only measure of a search engine and probably isn't even the most important.

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  1. ALL YOUR WEB PAGES ARE BELONG TO US! by Neck_of_the_Woods · · Score: 4, Funny


    Great, you have a huge index. I know a haystack that has more than one needle, but the stack is about the size of Texas.

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    1. Re:ALL YOUR WEB PAGES ARE BELONG TO US! by Moonshadow · · Score: 3, Funny

      Once again proving, it's not the size of your index, it's how you use it!

      *ahem*

  2. Hmm... by eaeolian · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ya think *somebody* might be compensating for something here?

    1. Re:Hmm... by pokeyburro · · Score: 2, Funny

      Sure, their frontpage looks great and all, but look at the location!

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  3. Less webpages by oever · · Score: 5, Funny

    The ultimate test: how many webpages about me:

    Google: 185
    AllTheWeb: 57

    I'll stick with google. It indexes more interesting stuff. ;^)

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    1. Re:Less webpages by tenman · · Score: 3, Funny

      I like the Image Search better than google's.

    2. Re:Less webpages by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I think you forgot to turn off the "filter out offensive content" feature.. alltheweb has that turned on by default.

  4. yeah but.. by SeicheWarning · · Score: 4, Funny

    are they going to have any cutesy cartoons made out of their name for special occasions?

  5. American Tech Companies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The story says AlltheWeb.com is owned by a Norwegian company. Should people really support a socialist Scandinavian country? Any real American should only use capitalist homeland-based search engines, like Google or MSN Search. Like Bush says, "You're either with us or against us." Only a traitor would go against Bush's wisdom. What are you, AN AMERICAN TALIBAN?

  6. How does this work? by Sludge · · Score: 4, Funny

    I did some searches, and I ended up with different results than google. Perhaps of note, the results I got with alltheweb are from 1998, whereas google's are from this year.

  7. The true test by Mr_Silver · · Score: 5, Funny
    Search for "sex":

    Google: 63,500,000
    AllTheWeb: 25,435,205

    I think I'll stick with Google :o)

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  8. Cached here by GothChip · · Score: 5, Funny

    For those who are unable to reach AllTheWeb here is the homepage through the usual Google cache.

  9. How about the image search then? by Jugalator · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'll just say this:

    Google manage to get a graph of the slashdot effect among the first 20 hits, while AllTheWeb just manage to get Cliff showing a Think Unix book (in weirdo hawaiian clothes). :-)

    I don't know about you, but Google give me more relevant matches as usual. ;-)

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  10. Re:Where's TEOMA? by Jugalator · · Score: 3, Funny

    lol

    Slashdot.org not among 10 first matches when searching for "slashdot"...

    Needless to say, I never wasted more time by checking the next page...

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  11. The old saying holds true: by nemesisj · · Score: 3, Funny



    It's not how big it is, it's how you use it.

    Google is still way more useful in my opinion.

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