AlltheWeb - Search Engine Tips & Information

Specific "Quick Search Tips" for AlltheWeb.


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AllTheWeb (FastSearch)
Search for: Web pages   News   Pictures   Videos   MP3 files   FTP files        Exact phrase
 
AllTheWeb Home page | AllTheWeb Help | AllTheWeb Advanced Search (for extensive field limiting, word filtering, languages)
Quick Search Tips:
General AllTheWeb is one of the world largest, fastest and most comprehensive search engines.  Offering highly relevant results, a fresh index and Intelligent Search Tips.
Other features are language detection, duplicate filtering, Offensive Content Reduction, Site Collapsing, etc...
The site, also known as "FAST Search", is a showcase for FAST's search technologies.  FAST results are provided to numerous portals, including those run by Terra Lycos.
Database refresh: recrawl every 9 - 12 days, news items every 2 hours.
Case Sensitive No.
Phrase searching With the check box Exact phrase or enclose the phrase in quotation marks " ", e.g. "like this phrase".
To require Use + immediately before a word, e.g. hyperactivity +children.
To exclude Use - immediately before a word, e.g. cats -dogs.
Boolean logic AND: default, assumed between words.
OR: enclose words in parenthesis ( ), without the "or" operator,  e.g. (cats dogs) .  Note: only one level of parenthesis.
NOT: use an uppercase NOT to indicate a word that must not appear in the documents.
Stemming No.
Wildcards No.  But you can enclose synonyms in parentheses to create OR, e.g. (feminist feminism feminine).
Sub-searching No.
Field searching You may combine any of the keywords in a search, separated by a white-space, e.g. "romeo and juliet" url.tld:dk finds all pages that contain the phrase "romeo and julliet" located in Denmark. 
url.tld:domainname   e.g. url.tld:fr will find pages from France.
url.host:hostname   e.g. url.host:www.fastsearch.com will find pages on the fastsearch.com site.
url.all:text   e.g. url.all:football will find pages on all servers that have the word football anywhere in the full URL.
url.domain:text   finds pages with the specified word or phrase anywhere in the domain name.
link.extension:extension   e.g. link.extension:jpeg will find pages that contain .jpeg images.
link.all:URL   e.g. link.all:www.AllTheWeb.com will find all pages linking to www.AllTheWeb.com.
normal.title:text   e.g. normal.title:football will find pages with football in the title.
normal.titlehead:text   will find pages with the specified word or phrase in the title or in its head content.