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AlltheWeb (sometimes referred to as FAST or FAST Search) was an Internet search engine. It originated from FTP Search, the doctorate thesis project of Tor Egge at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Egge began the work in 1994, and it later led to the creation of Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), founded on July 16, 1997. AlltheWeb launched in mid-1999. It was acquired by Yahoo in 2003. Yahoo shut it down in 2011.

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Website.screenshot
alltheweb.png
Website.caption
Screenshot of AlltheWeb
Website.type
Web search engine
Website.launch_date
(as Fast)
Website.current_status
Closed, Shut down by Yahoo!

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Official website
www.alltheweb.com/search
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name in kana
オール・ザ・ウェブ
inception
1999-01-01
dissolved, abolished or demolished date
2011-04-04
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AlltheWeb (sometimes referred to as FAST or FAST Search) was an Internet search engine. It originated from FTP Search, the doctorate thesis project of Tor Egge at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Egge began the work in 1994, and it later led to the creation of Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), founded on July 16, 1997. AlltheWeb launched in mid-1999. It was acquired by Yahoo in 2003. Yahoo shut it down in 2011.

==Traits== When AlltheWeb started in 1999, FAST aimed to provide their database to other search engines, major portals, Internet service providers and content sites. By August 2, 1999, the AlltheWeb database had grown to 200 million unique URLs. By June 2002, their crawler had indexed over 2 billion pages.

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