AlltheWeb - Search Engine Tips & Information
Specific "Quick Search Tips" for AlltheWeb.
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General
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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.
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Case Sensitive
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No.
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Phrase searching
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With the check box Exact phrase or enclose the phrase in quotation marks
" ", e.g. "like this phrase".
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To require
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Use + immediately before a word, e.g. hyperactivity +children
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To exclude
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Use - immediately before a word, e.g. cats -dogs
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Boolean logic
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AND: default, assumed between words.
OR: enclose words in parenthesis ( ), without the "or" operator, e.g. (cats
dogs)
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NOT: use an uppercase NOT to indicate a word that must not appear in the documents.
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Stemming
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No.
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Wildcards
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No. But you can enclose synonyms in parentheses to create OR, e.g. (feminist
feminism feminine)
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Sub-searching
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No.
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Field searching
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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.
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