KWIC & site: at AlltheWeb

While Google gets lots of press for its relaunch of its news search, AlltheWeb has been busy the past few weeks. As of yesterday, they have started rolling out a dynamic keyword-in-context (KWIC) extract in the results list. Available at Lycos for awhile now, this feature is finally making its way into the AlltheWeb results. This is the kind of display Google usually provides where the extract contains the actual search terms along with some of the surrounding text.

In addition, AlltheWeb has a new field search of site: which is more precise and easier to remember than their older url.host and url.domain:. I've updated the AlltheWeb Review and the example in the Fields section notes that site:www.total.com finds different results than site:www.total.com.au. Give it a try, but expect that there may be changes to the way it works over the next few weeks.