Now FAST Gets AltaVista Enterprise from Overture
On top of all the continuing confusion of acquisitions and ownerships changes in the search engine field, comes this one. Earlier this year Overture bought up AltaVista and the FAST Web Search business...
View ArticleIndexing Robots.txt Files
It appears that Google’s spider is not only checking robots.txt files, it is also indexing and even caching some of them. Try a search on allinurl:robots.txt to see some examples, or see the cached...
View ArticleYahoo! Grabs Overture (and AlltheWeb and AltaVista)
Yahoo! announces today that they are acquiring Overture, known for its highly profitable ads, ranked by the highest bidder. And Overture earlier this year bought up AltaVista and AlltheWeb. At a price...
View ArticleAlltheWeb Adds More File Types
Finally, another search engine offers searchable access to about as many file types beyond PDFs as Google does. AlltheWeb has expanded from indexing just PDF, Microsoft Word, and Flash files (beyond...
View ArticleAlltheWeb Now Over 3 Billion
Overture announces that it’s AlltheWeb search engine now has a database of “approximately 3.2 billion.” The AlltheWeb home page says 3,151,743,117 is the current number, although it is actually a bit...
View ArticleYahoo! Completes Overture Acquisition
Now AltaVista, AlltheWeb, Inktomi, and Overture are all owned by Yahoo! The press release quotes CEO Terry Semel, “We are excited to combine the two companies to build the largest position in the...
View ArticleSome Shared Databases at AlltheWeb and AltaVista
AlltheWeb and AltaVista are now owned by Yahoo! when they bought Overture. For now, AltaVista and AlltheWeb continue to be available at their historic locations and have separate databases for their...
View ArticleHotBot Drops FAST (AlltheWeb/Lycos)
Gary Price noticed that HotBot has dropped one of its databases. Originally labeled FAST and then changed to Lycos, the underlying database was basically the same as the one at AlltheWeb. It is...
View ArticleAlltheWeb Database Dies! (But Lives at Lycos)
The AlltheWeb site is still up and looks quite similar, but Yahoo! has changed the underlying database and removed many of the great advanced features that helped make AlltheWeb such a great search...
View ArticleLiveSearch Turned Off
Yahoo!-owned AlltheWeb had their LiveSearch experiment running for over a year, display suggested search terms as you typed. Now, the LiveSearch address just redirects to Yahoo! I assume that this is...
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