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AllTheWeb Claims Bigger Index Than Google
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.
This is the same AllTheWeb that has been buying banner ads that launch their website into pop-ups again and again...no thanks....
Unfortunatly their ads are at the top of the page, followed by "top news" and then the links themselves.
However the first two returns for Scientology are the Scientology homepage and Operation Clambake. I wonder how long it will be before AllTheWeb is threatened.
Aside I'll need more proof that this thing is more accurate than google before I would consider switching.
Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.
when a search for
;)
"php regular expression" AND "tutorial"
on AllTheWeb gives me 131 results, with more than half being a reference to a PHP website manual (and even a dislaimer footer because it had the words "PHP" and "and" in it ???). Moreover, it took my "and" literally as a search criteria, though my advance searching techniques could probably use a bit of help
In comparison, Google gives me 73 links (without omitted results showing) with many results displaying ALL my keywords in bold and not ONE of them using "and" as a keyword.
Dunno, I'm probably a bit biased anyway since "Google" types out so much easier for me (repetition i guess) than "alltheweb".
pblt....
Because it indexes all of the domain names of the same site as different hosts.
;)
Google returns one accurate site for the company "DataHive", one domain name (not the proper one, but how would it know =)
This site returns 3 different domains, and tries to present them as different pages, though they all have the same content.
I can imagine its easy to claim more than google when you multiply the number of real hits.
I must say though, the results I found were pretty good for a number of queries. Definetly a google competitor. It does not seem to find all of the newsgroup/mailing-list stuff that google returns, good or bad depending on what you are searching for.
Its nice to have another competant option
It was hidden as ftpsearch.lycos.com for some time, but now it seems to have come "home".
BTW: the last time their OS was visible through the firewall, it was FreeBSD...
Anyone remember archie ?
Windows 2000 - from the guys who brought us edlin
There is actually a help link. "php regular expression" + "tutorial" would have given you what you wanted. If you want to compare two tools you should at least use enough time to see if you have to use the two differently, and then see what is best at getting the job done.
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Redirection limit for this URL exceeded. Unable to load the requested page.
i nc.com/jen.shtml in the location bar and get the same error message. What version of Mozilla are you using?
That is a Mozilla error message (source) and does not come from alltheweb. Your web server is broken. http://www.kaosinc.com/jen.shtml redirects to http://www.kaosinc.com/index.shtml, which then redirects to itself. This happens regardless of where I find the link to http://www.kaosinc.com/jen.shtml, or what browser I use to load it. IE appears to just sit there, Opera bounces between various stages of trying to connect, and Netscape 4 gives up after a few redirects and displays a raw 302-found page ("The document has moved _here_") without redirecting.
Moving the mouse over the link doesn't reveal the address in the bottom bar, either, so the only way I can think of to obtain the address of the item it matches is by right-clicking and selecting 'copy link address', opening a new window and pasting it it (and having a browser that is capable of doing this), then editing the URL so only the target link text remains.
An easier way to see the URL of the link is to hold the mouse down over the link, and then move off of the link before you lift the mouse button. But I still get the infinite-redirect error message if I type your URL directly.
You can't even right-lick and open in a new window to do this. If you try, you get "about:blank" which, afaik, means they're using javascript.
If I right-click on a link from the alltheweb search results and select "open link in new window", I see http://www.alltheweb.com/go/1/H/web/http/www.kaos
The shareholder is always right.
i did an even simpler test. I searched for "monkeys" - google returned interesting results all from different websites in the first 10 results. AllTheWeb returned 10 pages, SIX of which were all on the same domain, shacknews.com, and all of them had NOTHING to do with monkeys!
This search engine can't even find monkeys, then forget about it.
Let's look at the numbers shall we?
Fnord: Google: 104000 AllTheWeb: 46439
Cheese: Google: 3690000 AllTheWeb: 7718252
Linux: Google: 48000000 AllTheWeb: 26670311
Windows: Google: 44600000 AllTheWeb: 66545303
Extropian: Google: 4460 AllTheWeb: 3999
Kumquat: Google: 32600 AllTheWeb: 42889
Question Authority and the authorities will question you.: Google: 90 AllTheWe b: 74
Hot man meat: Google: 229 AllTheWeb: 1661
Hot pussy: Google: 104000 AllTheWeb: 770057
"undefined reference to" error: Google: 31700 AllTheWeb: 8548
"Antimatter-Catalyzed MicroFission / Fusion": Google: 6 AllTheWeb: 1
Surprisingly alltheweb does return more hits in some areas, most notably for che ese, windows, and pr0n. With the cheese test, AllTheWeb helpfully cluttered my s creen with a banner for food products. Google, thankfully, is still bannerless, and returns more linux hits, fnords, and Voltaire quotes. Alltheweb also stalled several times and I had to resubmit a search. Conclusion: If you're a linux gee k or you want to know about fnords, futuristic philosophies, compilation errors, or advanced space propulsion concepts, google is better. If you're a horny wind ows user and want to find gay or straight pr0n, and if you for some reason like kumquats and want to learn more about cheese, use alltheweb.
Seriously, I'll probably stick with google, better numbers or no. The only thing AllTheWeb has going for it is the ftp search. The original is owned by lycos no w and broken.