AlltheWeb Advanced Features Announcement

Today, AlltheWeb announced their new advanced search features primarily available on their advanced search page. Most of the announcement is for features that have been available since Sept. 12. Their new KWIC display that has been available since Sept. 24 and that they call "visual relevancy" is also mentioned.

Even though these features have been available for a few weeks, it is a refreshing change to see a search engine actually announcing and publicizing advanced search features. Too often in the past there has been no publicity or even acknowledgment of new features.

More quietly, AlltheWeb has a new privacy policy in response to a complaint filed Sept. 17. The new policy does still say that a cookie from advertising partners like DoubleClick MAY gather information that includes "the IP-address of the user, the time and date of the search on www.alltheweb.com, and the search request submitted to our web site."