AllTheWeb Changes

Today, AllTheWeb unveiled several changes from Fast Search. They added a news database to their Web, image, multimedia, and FTP databases. The searchable news database covers more than 3,000 Web news sources. Up to two headlines will be displayed with a typical AllTheWeb search, and the results will note that day and time the news page was last crawled. Pages will only remain in the index for five days, but the news crawl is continuous and fully updates all pages every two hours. AllTheWeb has also added dynamic clustering known as Fast Topics. These appear at the top of the results and divide the top 200 hits into folders using the Open Directory vocabulary or automatically generated terms if no Open Directory term seems to match. On the simple search, AllTheWeb now has dynamic query modification that will automatically detect phrases and use antiphrasing to remove phrases like “where can i find information on.” All of these new features along with many others can be turned on or off using the newly improved customization capabilities. One additional and unique new feature on the advanced search page is the ability to limit by page size.