AlltheWeb (sometimes referred to as FAST or FAST Search) was an Internet

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that made its debut in mid-1999 and was closed in 2011. It grew out of ''FTP Search'', Tor Egge's doctorate thesis at the

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, which he started in 1994, which in turn resulted in the formation of

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(FAST), established on July 16, 1997.

Traits

When AlltheWeb started in 1999, FAST aimed to provide their database to other search engines, major portals,

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and content sites. By August 2, 1999, the AlltheWeb database had grown to 200 million unique

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. By June 2002, their crawler had indexed over 2 billion pages. AlltheWeb claimed a few advantages over Google, such as a fresher database, more advanced search features, search clustering and a completely customizable look.

Closure

In February 2003, FAST's web search division was bought by

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for $70 million. In July 2003, Overture was acquired by

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, putting AlltheWeb under the ownership of Yahoo!. Shortly after Yahoo!'s acquisition, the AlltheWeb site started using Yahoo!'s database and some of the advanced functions were removed, such as

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search and direct image search. In May 2006, Yahoo! started testing live search results on AlltheWeb. On April 4, 2011, AlltheWeb was shut down by Yahoo!.

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Closure

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